Ghibli and I
Saptarshi Nag
This country like every single time is once again swept away by a storm. A storm called ‘Ghibli’. If you ask a common man why he is sharing a Ghibli pic, he will just say, chalta hain yaar, its the trend. This is where I have raised my concern. People are coming up with ideas how through Ghibli some AI bot is stealing your data. I am not bothered about that. It is your data, your time and your wish. I don’t actually remember when for the last time I was swept away by such trends. So, if you are losing your own data to some AI-bots, you must be giving them the access to do buffoonery with your pics with your consent. Its about your own choice, your own idiocy and I being a middle aged non-conformist have nothing to say against your choice. But the ordinariness of an average Indian I have seen throughout this storm is something I want to raise my voice against.
Have you ever posted your photo or the ‘DP’ as they say as a qualified unemployed? Have you ever posted your picture as a ‘Tax burdened citizen’? Tomorrow this ‘Ghibli’ will go and some ‘Chhabli’ will come. Your government will be raising a toast to see how you change your DPs and never change your stance. One day you will father or mother an innocent child and if he or she is given with an iota of intelligence and if they happen to scroll through your social media posts, they will start shouting at you, ‘Why did you give in to ordinariness?’
I have not succumbed to such cheap trends which I believe is a paid attempt to divert your attention to something not at all important, leaving something which is important an orphan . The rise of the Anime Industry in Japan actually took away the intellectuals by storm. Those who have watched the likes of ‘My Neighbour Totoro’, ‘Spirited Away’ or ‘Grave of the Fireflies’ or those reading the much celebrated book of Hector Garcia called ‘Ikigai’ on their achievements or those who are familiar with the greatness of Hayao Miyazaki must be knowing that this was prevalent in a truly developed country like Japan almost four decades back. What we adults or in my opinion ‘ Indian imbeciles’ are sharing through social media was shared in Japan forty years back on pen and paper. If my child has not yet read Garcia or Totoro, I cannot blame him or her but if you being an adult think that ‘This is so cool’, you have a problem, dear.
The reason why I doubt that today we, Indians can never be original, be it in the making of movies, be it in VFX or even in social media trends is just because what we are trending today is something the world had already seen decades back. We take pride in how the great Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa used to have immense respect for an Indian genius named ‘Satyajit Ray’. Ray is no more and so is our intelligence. What can we deserve more than ‘Ghibli’ where we are buffooned by the AI only to be used for future destructions.
Heal, fools, heal…
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