I want to post a controversial subject: the intellect of Sajha users and what it tells you about our mental aptitude and social norms.
Somebody put it pretty well: "Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people." If you go back and look at all the Sajha postings, almost 100% are about the latter two, majority being the threads on people (Shristi Shrestha, Manisha Koirala, etc etc). You venture into one of those posts and the level of discussions are akin to 7th grade discussion: huge generalization (Nepali people are this, they are that), petty arguments and immature logics. Not to knock on my people, I think most of the blogs from our side of the world are similar, but when I goto other reputable blog sites, the discussion are much more intellectual. They tend to foster my brain's development, rather than frustrate it.
Does this mean, we, as a society, are intellectually far behind? It is ofcourse a rash generalization on my part. Many of my Nepali friends are more intelligent than the natives around here; does this mean they just don't frequent blogs like Sajha? Why?
I have been with Sajha for quite a while now and still remember few posters who would contribute very intellectually to a thread; there still are a select few whose postings I like to read. But why are 99% of the postings similar to kids having arguments?
I am not complaining like any other post; you know, state of Sajha has deteriorated and all that. I have read too many of those posts. I just want to know whether 90% of us are still lagging in intellectual development? Could that, seriously, be the reason why we aren't progressing as a society and still are stuck with Bandhas and morchas? What can we do to go along with the fast moving world?
I hope I didn't offend anyone; this is a genuine question.
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