Times we Live in : Managing Social Threats

We have been consistently listening to the threats being posed from different fronts on our existential right. Sometime these become so regular that they stop having effects on our regular life. Let me categorize the kind of threats that I am trying to bring to your attention. The first are those threats that we can directly relate ourselves with. These impact us on a regular basis and have localized effects. We are more able to associate the cause and effect patterns of such threats. Often these are less manageable also. The second are such threats which do not directly relate to us. Often we are not aware of such threats unless a movement is mooted in public media. These have effects on long terms and affects globally. These are more manageable but less convincing. So a people movement in such regard is difficult to gather.

Public opinion with respect to all kind of social threats is always important to understand because they have profound impact on the way threats finally shape up. Most often we see people not reacting to threats because it has not affected them. This is naturally acceptable behavior. We are always more concerned with the immediate happenings affecting us. But obviously what we miss here is the fact that if we fail to react on time, we might be at the target of such threats in due course of time. What I am stressing here is a proactive social action to curb what looks like a threat. Here I refer to all sorts of threats that we see and that we fail to see.

From a threat management perspective, we need to define the roles and responsibility of all the partners of society that come into picture. This includes government, corporations, private firms, social organizations and individual people. Here I feel important to mention that all threats you hear may not have actual bearing. Some of them are deliberate efforts of anti social elements to gain personal and unethical profits. Here comes the role of social infrastructure like government to put control on such threats. But definitely individual responsibility is to verify all such threats that they here and avoid spreading any threat that they are not sure of. Individual bearing have great impact on spreading rumors.

If we talk about threats that impact us globally on a long run, it’s important that all sections of the society come together to spread the knowledge and share the actual bearing these threats might have. It’s important to understand that the effects might not be visible in our lifetimes, but from a human sustainability perspective, it becomes our responsibility to analyze and handle all such issues with utmost care. A timely action will prove worthy in the sense, we will save a lot of effort when such threats start showing their effects. Why these require our special attention because it will always be difficult for every individual to digest these threats and act accordingly. Threats which are more visible are often took care by people due to their direct bearing, but indirect threats always escape mass attention.

It is needless to say we have numerous such indirect threats which have come to limelight due to recent media attention they have received. It’s our duty to analyze each of then and take a stand befitting to our society in long run. Public consciousness can always guarantee that certain anti social elements do not cheat us for narrow benefits. It’s high time we rise to all such calls. It’s our society and so is our responsibility to see it foster.