In a time when you do not need a passport to enter the worlds of others, the human mind has become the new boundaries … and the penetration is no longer electronically, but also intellectually. We live in a world known as information and the platform, and the digital media is no longer just windows from which we look at the world, but rather they have become entire rooms that we live inside, we draw ideas and news from them, define our convictions, and even constitute our feelings.
Until it became the biggest player in forming minds, directing opinion, or even kidnapping it. Concepts are sometimes formulated outside the geography of logic. In this informational chaos, “intellectual security” becomes an indispensable shield, not only to protect the homelands, but to protect a person from falling into misinformation and manipulation of minds.
The “intellectual security” is the mental shield that protects a person from confusion, misinformation, tampering with identity, and belonging. It is the immunity of minds in the time of unlimited openness, and it is the collective feeling that protects a person from slipping to misleading ideas or beliefs, and it is a state of mental balance, psychological reassurance, and the ability to resist confusion and forgery in a world in which intellectual toxins are broadcast through modern communication channels. Intellectual security is not slogans that are raised, but rather mental immunity against attempts to cultural invasion directed to youth and family disintegration And the educational vacuum.
Falsifying values, spreading rumors and false news that cultivate doubts, and disturbing certainty. All of these challenges constitute timely intellectual bombs, which may lead to serious social and security imbalances if they are not conscious and anticipated.
Therefore, the role of intellectual security comes to instill in a person intellectual immunity that prevents him from drifting behind everything that is published, depicted, and promoted in the media and social media, but awareness of employing it in the service of intellectual security and its promotion makes it platforms for light, instead of being corridors of darkness, in the time of the “influencers”, the danger has become coming from the screen that we carry in our hands through all of our hands “Story” carries a message, and every “trend” makes a general opinion with or without.
Thus, the subconscious may become the battlefield by manipulating concepts in a soft manner, through deceptive entertainment content, or fake news disguised in a beautiful language.
And influences attract attention, and here it shows a question: What is the relationship between these platforms and the preservation of intellectual security? Is it a adviser or an enemy that is disappointed in the form of attractive content? Is the media platform a voice for the masses or the echo of chaos? In fact, the media platforms were never merely tools to transmit the news, but rather – in the time of the new media – turned to an actor in forming collective awareness. Everyone has a “private microphic”, and every idea has a way to spread, whatever its superficiality, or its falsehood. These platforms have opened the doors for rumors, which are bound in the word “urgent”, and they are carefully broadcasting to make minds still learn how to think.
But these means can be enlightenment, motivation and protection. Through targeted videos and awareness podcasts, to create a digital environment that spread positive values and enables young people to distinguish between purposeful and poisonous content, and here the role of intellectual security to protect minds from manipulation, and to build the individual’s ability to distinguish between information and claim, emerges between facts and propaganda and the objective and biased opinion, and here the importance of conscious media platforms is manifested, capable of forming a wall in front of thought False, and even becomes an active partner in spreading awareness, enhancing the values of tolerance and belonging.
The most important question arises .. What are the features of the security platform that enhances intellectual security? She gives every idea her right to analyze. The audience is armed with knowledge, the information is presented from reliable sources, and the methods of manipulation are revealed.
The national identity is reinforced and the mind is raised. This requires media education that enables young people to read content with analysis glasses. And enable education and media institutions to provide reliable, attractive, and renewed speech. And the design of digital campaigns in which cultural elites and positive influencers participate.
Thus, the media becomes a protective shield for ideas that protect the minds from cognitive pollution and slipping into the swamps of the directed thought. We need to teach our children: how do they think … not what they think. He who does not have his thought does not have his future, as intellectual security is not an intellectual luxury, but rather a national necessity … because if consciousness is lost, all achievements are lost.
Investing in building safe media platforms is an investment in our intellectual security, and in our national future. Let the platform be a platform for light, not a bitter darkness. Let us be an audience that does not consume the content, but rather analyzes it.
* Assistant Professor in Digital Media
