Camera Culture
By: Prof. Dr. Younes Megdadi
The American Edwin Reischauer says in his book “The Japanese” in 1979, which contains twenty-nine chapters in which he embodies the history and culture of Japanese society and the stages of its development over the decades, leading to its economic, industrial, educational power and enormous societal civilization that has dazzled the peoples of the world. One of the chapters of the book concerns the psychology of the Japanese people, which is linked to a group of factors that have contributed in an impressive way based on societal values and willpower. Aside from delving into the details, this chapter caught my attention and I enjoyed its details, and I believe that the Japanese people were able to embody a special, distinct and unique psychology that is completely different from world societies, and it has become a road map aimed at establishing an intellectual culture laden with seriousness and achievement, noting their notable evasion of Camera lights because they believe that it does not reflect their identity and civilization, even though Japan was the first to make the camera.
Social studies have indicated that people's cultures are not measured by words or by distributing artificial smiles in front of cameras, but by actions, and this is indeed what Japanese society believes in. This leads us to a main question that touches our reality and must be asked to find out the reasons for our passion for camera lights? Are camera lights related to our psychology? We may agree to some extent that this relationship exists because we believe that one of the goals of using the camera and throwing ourselves into it is to highlight our personal, family, and professional capabilities and talents and our various occasions, so that the camera, i.e. photos, videos, etc., is a witness and evidence of our intellectual orientations and our personal, social, and other goals. But what is strange about the matter is that we are living in an attention-grabbing situation brought out by the lights of the cameras, and this may express the structure of our psychology, which many see as laden with many factors controlling and motivating such behavior, and which are often explained by psychological, personal, and social motives that crystallize a certain way of thinking and psychology that may be similar to the relationship of the camera with Hollywood stars. This statement is not slander, but there is a lot of evidence and evidence, and everyone follows the various social media outlets, all of which confirm our passion for the camera and its lights, which has formed a general and popular societal culture, regardless of the truth behind our use of the camera or its falsity.
We are all witnessing of the technological invasion and the modernity of industries, including the camera with modern technologies and superior technical features, especially digital ones, which are capable of magnifying, minimizing, or directing the event in an extraordinary artistic way with a wide variety of yellow smiles and artificial movements. Once again, we may agree to a large extent on our need for the camera and its role and goals that are known to everyone, but we must be aware and beware of the falsity of the artificial tragedy that the camera creates for the truth, and this leads us to lose the compass of intellectual civilization aimed at creating a societal culture that embraces self-confidence, willpower, and crystallization. Values as a basis for civilization, as affirmed by societal cultures around the world, have gained a share in the global ranking of human cultures due to their belief that the lights of cameras do not create truth, solutions, miracles, or intellectual and cultural competition. However, what we are witnessing is that the camera has become a distraction and fills the intellectual void in most cases, far from The truth and purposes and we may discover its consequences too late.
