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The Harm of Entertainment Culture

English book, p. 65

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Harm of Entertainment Culture I have found that most people in the present age possess a dual personality. In one aspect, they excel, but they do not excel in other aspects. The one aspect in which they excel is that with which their material interests are linked. In this domain, they are serious. They try to deeply understand things related to this particular sphere of their life. As a result, they become experts in this particular field. However, besides this, there are other aspects of life with which these people’s material interests and concerns are not directly related. These people almost always take these other aspects very lightly. They rarely try to learn more about them. For this reason, their views on such matters are generally vague and lack clarity. On such matters, their minds are a jungle of confusion. If asked to speak on these issues, they will either say some childish things or something so seemingly complicated that the listener gains nothing from their words. Another harmful aspect of this predicament is that such people often suffer from a false sense of confidence. As suggested earlier, such ‘educated’ people know their particular field very well and can speak on it with great expertise. It creates a false sense of confidence because of which when such people

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