Misplaced Priorities

This was coming for a long time. Now-a-days you turn on the idiot box and all you see is a second by second monitoring of a B grade politician's son who probably got high on some spurious mix of coke and heroine, also termed as Dr. Feel good, hard candy, white boy, train etc. Now this makes me ask just a simple question? Are we concerned about the root issue, that is prevalence of drugs in the Indian subcontinent or are we concerned about what's happening in the bungalows of rich/powerful and not so famous? Well if we are concerned about the drugs, then why the hell have we been in such a deep slumber all this while. I mean its not that coke has hit India for the very first time! Right this moment as I am punching these words on my keyboard, someone somewhere might be shooting up or snorting the same poison and getting high? I am amazed at the level of double standards we are keeping? Neither are we worried about the use of drugs and nor are we concerned about the root cause? All we are concerned about is some news about what the rich and famous are doing? Talk about misplaced priorities! I mean we are talking about the prime time coverage! Some guys hide behind the fact that we are just watching what media is feeding us. Well my friend, let me tell you one simple fact, Media is gonna dish out only these dishes which you savour! Just because we guys have our eyes glued to that piece of news, hence the increase in TRP and hence the perpetual pollution of our living rooms with a news which is not even worth page 11 of a zonal newspaper and that too for a couple of days. Its time we get up and smell the coffee. Lets get our priorities straight and stop being hypocrites. Is this kid worth so much attention? The cause sure needs a lot of attention and introspection, which is very innocently going to evade our moral conscience. We need to educate people about drugs and their effects, we need to have proper checks at all our ports and airports to prevent the poison from hitting our country and lets have more stringent laws about drug peddling and its use. These are the things that we need to focus on. But alas we will again forget everything and just be us.