Khenpo Sodargye
Under the control of big data (algorithms), many short videos and social media are actually sowing discord and driving wedges between people. This includes relationships between husbands and wives, teachers and students, parents and children, among others; these relationships are being constantly being undermined.
To develop one’s life values from such input is deeply tragic and pitiful; it is also one of the reasons why more and more people are suffering from depression and anxiety nowadays. Many children who are just ten years old or so suffer from depression, feeling that they are not acknowledged by their schools or their parents. Consequently, they are unwilling to attend school and are even sent to psychiatric hospitals, and after coming out, their capacity for thinking is no longer fully intact. This phenomenon is becoming increasingly common…
Many people are constantly brainwashed with negative thoughts through short videos and similar medium, then they come to believe that the entire world must be as depicted by these negative perspectives. Online information is overwhelming and pervasive, while excellent education focused on virtue is missing.
What catches people's eyes is negative information… the more they dwell on it, the more they want to watch it, until finally they truly believe in their hearts that things are exactly this way. Nowadays, there are alot of provocative suggestions about how children should confront their parents, even the words used by couples during arguments are learned from these videos designed by their creators for stimulation and entertainment…
Moral standards have also been torn down by these videos—as more people watch these videos of previously unacceptable behaviors with enjoyment, these immoral behaviors become normalised and accepted by the mainstream. This is a characteristic of the degenerate times.
