Read the road carefully, even for ants to crawl around!
(Baonghean) - To be honest, at first, when we saw the internet and online newspapers and news sites focusing on promoting, digging up, and even scrutinizing the young farmer with the "disastrous" singing voice and the "stage name" Le Roi, we resolutely remained silent in the typical Nghe An style: we didn't care! We considered it just the usual silly tricks of online forums and tabloid newspapers, "inflating" or "boosting" a person or story into a phenomenon, then loudly praising it from every angle to attract readers. But yesterday, when we saw a reputable, "serious, and respectable" newspaper inviting this cheerful farmer who sings, but sings terribly, to the editorial office for an online interaction with his fans, we realized we couldn't remain silent any longer!
Because, lurking behind that incident, we see the instability leading to the distorted thoughts and behaviors of today's youth. Perhaps everyone has noticed that since the internet connected the world to every neighborhood with all kinds of information in written and visual form, a very dangerous motto has emerged in the lifestyle of young people: being willing to do anything to become famous. Therefore, in modern society, we see the emergence of "Thuy Top," "Ely Tran," "Ba Tung," "young but long-lived," flaunting their skin and bodies everywhere and at all times. Parts that should be covered are deliberately exposed under any pretext for the world to see, all with the sole purpose of becoming... famous.
And it's true that "notoriety is bad." But for many young people today, beauty or ugliness doesn't matter, as long as they're well-known. Therefore, many young men and women deliberately show off their bodies and undress to "expose" themselves. That's why, when the cold-blooded teenage murderer Le Van Luyen became famous for ruthlessly killing an entire family, many teenagers went online to form groups calling themselves "Luyen's followers," idolizing the ruthless killer, all with the aim of attracting public attention and becoming famous, even if it was a bad reputation. Then, when competitions and games proliferated on television, many young men and women with no talent tried to squeeze in to appear on the small screen, performing all sorts of things from shouting and yelling to kneeling, crying, and begging...
It's all driven by the desire to be inscribed on the "online pantheon" in the truest sense of the word, "Better to have one glorious moment and then fade away / Than to live a dull, flickering life for a hundred years." Therefore, when a serious organization also celebrates Le Roi through "online interaction," it's nothing short of supporting and promoting the aforementioned lifestyle. Seeing Le Roi suddenly become famous with such a naive singing style, surely many young people will enthusiastically try to emulate him, working day and night to "create" gimmicks, the more absurd, bizarre, strange, and naive the better, in order to become as famous as the "singing sensation" Le Roi. And that would completely overturn the true, good, and beautiful values of life.
Doing so is like "showing the deer the way to run." Or, to put it in the Nghe An dialect, it's like telling the ants to crawl along the road!
Artisan