Anthropomorphism - Genius or stupid?
One recalls, in the Indian education system, memories of having to endure English as taught in the British schooling system for 12 years before properly learning it from subtitles to American films and TV. In course of the education, many concepts imprisoned on paper by Messrs Wren and Martin subconsciously entered our brains. Let’s analyse one such concept: anthropomorphism, i.e. the tendency of writers to assign human traits to non-human characters or things. To be brutally honest, it comes across as absolutely ridiculous. If anything, the world as we know it is going in the opposite direction. We expect our cricketers to be run machines, our politicians to be truth machines and our domestic help to be, well, machines. In fact, we are actively working towards the mechanization of the human species by becoming expectation machines ourselves and making our children robots. In other words, with our increasing interaction with technology, we can safely be accused of becoming increasing...