{"id":61660,"date":"2026-05-12T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=61660"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:27:27","slug":"social-media-and-the-exposition-of-the-regression-of-critical-thinking-and-intellectuality-among-sudanese-educated-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/social-media-and-the-exposition-of-the-regression-of-critical-thinking-and-intellectuality-among-sudanese-educated-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and the Exposition of the Regression of Critical Thinking and Intellectuality Among Sudanese educated Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>M. Jalal Hashim<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social media has fully exposed the phenomenon of the acute regression of critical thinking and intellectuality among the Sudanese educated class (the class of effendiyya). This is clearly shown in the extensive use of premade posts of either good wish, supplication, or even short verses from the Holy Quran or excerpts from the traditions of Prophet Muhammad. The daily and automated sending of such materials so extensively by people who are supposed to have owned the technical knowhow to work their mind critically and intellectually tells how intellectually poor those people have become. This does not include forwarding regularly materials that stimulates thinking and intellectuality.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>***<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I have a close friend of mine who is a true lover of flowers and roses to the extent that he grows them in his house garden. Every morning, he picks up a certain rose, take a clise-up picture of it with a highly resolution camera and then send it to his friends with the phrase &#8220;A Happy New Day&#8221;. Once received, I save them in a folder under the name &#8220;A Happy New Day&#8221;. This is not automated sending of premade posts, no! This is art and love of natural beauty and humanity all combined together.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>***<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Many a time, I consider blocking those intellectually poor automated senders of premade posts so as to save myself the pain of regularly deleting the posts lest my mobile memory gets jammed with them, but I refrain. After all, they are good wishers, no matter how acutely intellectually poor they are. Then I began studying the case to only conclude that it is a phenomenon in its own right, a phenomenon of an acute regression of critical thinking and intellectuality among a huge secter of highly educated people. I began my experiments on them by randomly shoosing one of them each a time. Then I try to get them engaged in an intellectual subject. The result? It is not only and consistently 100% negative, but it has turned out that they get activated in full throttle, bombarding me with even more premade posts. Instead of receing one premade post a day, they began coming in interval showers a day, a shower for breakfast, a shower for lunch, another for dinner, and last one for supper. During Holy Ramadan, there was a predawn shower for the Suhuur. Just imagine this! <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>***<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Truly said proverb : qalam maa bi-ziil balam!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. Jalal Hashim Social media has fully exposed the phenomenon of the acute regression of critical thinking and intellectuality among the Sudanese educated class (the class of effendiyya). This is clearly shown in the extensive use of premade posts of either good wish, supplication, or even short verses from the Holy Quran or excerpts from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61662,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61660\/revisions\/61662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}