Media
Have you ever wondered how much effect does the media have on the mass audience? If you look at yourself or the ones around you, you will realize that in most cases you are a passive recipient who receives information from the TV or radio or the social media and accept it without any attempt to critically assess its authenticity. If you take the Lebanese media as an example, you realize that the Lebanese mass will be politically outraged for any incident that is put on the TV and this is reflected in the obscene language they direct to each other on the social media. Arabs in general are emotional. They can be manipulated by religion, politics and any other ideology that they have been previously programmed to accept. Also, media puts a lot of pressure on people in terms of certain standards of beauty for example. A teenager will enter into phases of depression because she has extra kilos of weight. The standard of beauty is for a girl to be skinny. Plastic surgery is another critical issue reflected in the media. All programs show girls with big lips and cheeks and other body parts the thing that puts pressure on other girls in the society who would want to challenge others in terms of beauty and to have a high self esteem so they subject their lives to danger and go for plastic surgery even though they don't need it. Another point is fortunetelling. Unfortunately, most people don't think critically and they pursue fortunetelling which is nothing but fraud and conning and they listen to them religiously forgetting about reason and logic. These are only some points that show the effect of media on us as audience. We should be aware and also raise awareness about the dangers of these points or else we will be leading our society to its doom.