Anyone feel this way?
I am sure this has popped up in a post before but here I go. Anyone feel that we are moving into a Brave New World Society faster than we should be? Or that over reliance on technology has handicapped us as potential thinkers and scholars? I've people watched and have seen stupidity and a lack in common knowledge that I am becoming rather fearful
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The issue with our technology making things so readily available is that we no longer have the desire to remember. Facts, dates, directions, millions of meaningless blurbs, they're all available with a quick google or wiki search. It is becoming even easier to forget with internet enabled smart phones.
This is a good thing, right? Not necessarily. Because we do not remember these things in the first place we cannot see the broad branching arcs and trends. We do not contextualize these snippets and incorporate their individual meanings into the larger picture on which we base our behaviors.
If it isn't shocking, amusing, or create strong emotions we dismiss the importance of the event or information. It fades from importance. It is more of the same. This occurs to the point where even sensational events like murders and bombings are no longer shocking because we've had shocking for so long. We have become accustomed to that level of violence and depersonalization.
We have become accustomed to virtual reality lives and personas on the internet. We take ideas and stories from individuals, but we do not care to connect or figure out where the story came from or what will happen to that person in the future. They are discardable. They are a tool to be used and forgotten. Not nurtured. Not to honestly and openly connect with.
Um, so that went in a quite pessimistic direction...
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