Yes, I am ignorant

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br />The youth is ignorant today, there are no excuses. Most of us don''t know what''s happening around us, we lack information. We lack the will to seek that information.<br /><br />Where was I when the Telgi scam broke? Lemme see. Probably shopping or dating or just staring into space.The only thing that grabbed me and my peers was the fact that Rs 32,000 crore was involved. And because the man blew up Rs 90 lakh on a woman in one night. Money is important. Sex is important. General knowledge is not. Stamps? What stamps? <br /><br />It''s not that we haven''t heard about things. It''s that these don''t figure in our conversation. Young conversations rarely reach a stage, where details are discussed. We close up at the mere mention of a controversy because though we know what has happened, we don''t care to find out what happens thereafter. Maybe we don''t want to know because the period of uncovering the truth is painfully long - decades sometimes.<br /><br />Peer conversations revolve around everything from what''s in and what''s out, who''s dating who, Page 3 parties, wild fantasies, to even the K-serials and sexual scandals worldwide. Anything but politics.<br /><br />Take the Taj heritage corridor and Mayawati, an issue that rocked Parliament last year. Now ask the youth how much they know about it. Chatting with friends once, I began to talk about it and everybody wanted to shut me up... "Who wants to talk about this dame whose unsavoury doings will be put under the cover soon? "asked a friend. "What do we know about what''s really happening, who knows the truth anyway?" said another.<br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />We could be SMSing, sitting in a coffee house, shopping or generally gassing around at a friend''s place, but never will our conversation revolve around real issues. Youth prefer playing agony aunt to a boyfriend or girlfriend rather than agonise over the state of the nation.<br /><br />Let''s face it. We are a generation in a hurry. Information is there everywhere, but it has to reach us without us having to go out and get it. Media hype doesn''t make us notice political scandals and controversies. In fact, it''s the way the media plays things that makes us lose interest first. Someone has to make it attractive and eyeball grabbing. The youth is ignorant by compulsion not by choice.<br /><br />Politicians nitpicking on the foreign origin issue or India Shining don''t really matter. We need to know what exactly is happening in our country -- people killing each other over a bucket of water, policemen raping women, people dying of starvation every day. But where is this information? All we get to know is about politicians and what they are up to.<br /><br />Who are these politicians without us? We''ve made them, not to know how witty they are when they pick on each other, but what they can do for us and the country. We want them to do what they are supposed to do; unfortunately they do everything else but their jobs.<br /><br /><formid=367815></formid=367815></div> </div>