WE live in the age of self-centred unawareness, oblivious to all else. I saw the ‘TERMINATOR’ movie several times, and so did many of my friends.
Schwarzenegger‘s entrance was classic, but the most traumatic scene was the beginning with the machine man in search of Sarah Conner and the entrance to her apartment. He was there to witness the fate of her friend, with the glaring Walkman plugged into her ears so she couldn’t hear the Terminator enter, though it made a lot of noise. Thus, her character died.

This was the 90s, and I had a Walkman, but I never had it plugged into both ears. I eventually dropped it and played my music on tape. To block one’s awareness of the true nature and sounds of the world that envelopes is a condition that can lead to severe regret. Our world requires recognition of every movement, every word said, and constant reflections on the odd sound, remark or agreement broken. It should be observed and processed in one’s own interest because we live in a world where every decision must be guarded with clarity.

The familiarity that comes from observing the habits and needs of family members and colleagues helps to create trust, empathy and foreboding. That essential sense of concern without intruding on privacy should come naturally, but we must recognise that what was common may have been superficial or have, in many ways, been transformed from a past generation. The duty aspect, the values that nurture inspiration, were always selective and worthy of admirable commendation and emulation, but other creeds have contaminated, and those influences are reflected in the pages of our newspapers, on your Tablets and on smartphones.

Domestic crimes, narcotics, gun crimes, arson — in many cases resulting in the murder of children — violations of trust where trust should be; older folk living alone have been murdered, in some cases by relatives sharing space. There are no gender or age limits to violations of our laws by perpetrators. What is troubling is the dominance of youth involved. Many of these acts were concluded as the accepted possible because of questionable examples pervading our social landscape.

Technology has played a role in numbing our capability to transform, based on what we called the inner ‘Vibe’ as we once addressed the ability to evaluate, conclude and make an opposing individual decision despite group influence. This has brought us again to the Biblical choice of the forbidden fruit, thus the free choice in its wider capacity is to dilute seriousness and move to the next mini-show. Why? Though this is not the intent of social media and sites, therefore, not because of direct purpose, but by making the world visible, for quick-viewing moments, in most cases, the viewer chooses sites that celebrate slices of the global environment that celebrate affluence, ego-tripping and success, so divorcing self from the stage they are on in Guyana.

But why is this so? Simply put, the opportunities to entertain their specific talents and ideas are not props on the stage they exist on, so they seek external interpretation. The failure may very well be linked to the previous connections to family conversations with older members, as referred to above, concerning what they want to explore now, that existed in an active form before this technological evolution of those who had lived lives before the Millennium and witnessed the onset of this technological-commercial age.

You will not know what was, how it was done, and how the same can be technically fashioned today towards viability. With the advent of local social-media characters, others will click to the possibility of more sensible and inspiring content. This is not to say that the current isn’t interesting, informative, mindboggling, and sometimes irritating, but overall, some do exert talent, most likely self-taught, to shape the new and original.

It must be recognised that it is essential to reflect by asking yourself whether there were interviews before on sensitive issues. How do I build an enduring stage that can be transferred beyond Guyana? How do I package serious content? One must always remember that what you do today may be cost-serving to its owner tomorrow. If you apply that legal due diligence today, just pay attention to what you do, so you can sensibly endure.