I didn't realize it'd be so hard to understand, but I guess I didn't do a very good job of explaining. I'll cut the flowery hyperbolic shit.
Many young adults are cynical and frustrated. I don't think it's unique to our generation, but in a highly digitized, clinical era, the things that were supposed to be making us more interconnected are actually causing a lot of alienation and emotional detachment. We are becoming more connected, not to each other, but to technology. Not that technology is inherently bad; it's just incredibly powerful and difficult to wield.
Giving in to the cynicism and playing along is the easy thing to do. I think it would behoove us to take a more optimistic approach.
I see people my age both embracing technology and longing for the 'old days' when there was no facebook, and cops couldn't run your license plate with their cameras, etc. Yes, you feel like less of a person. Yet you are more 'known' or connected to what(?), connected to a database, where people who both love you and hate you can find you easily.
I don't really long for the 'old days' (though I did finally delete my Facebook), I just think that there's a tremendous social power in technological connectivity that I don't think we've quite harnessed properly yet. It did help bring about a revolution in Egypt, which I think speaks for its potential for positive change. But as of now, I think most are still stuck in cynicism.
I'm actually just old enough to remember that idyllic time before the internet. I think kids born in the new millennium (who've nearly hit puberty, which is an odd thought) will have an interesting perspective on the matter as well.
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I didn't realize it'd be so hard to understand, but I guess I didn't do a very good job of explaining. I'll cut the flowery hyperbolic shit.
Many young adults are cynical and frustrated. I don't think it's unique to our generation, but in a highly digitized, clinical era, the things that were supposed to be making us more interconnected are actually causing a lot of alienation and emotional detachment. We are becoming more connected, not to each other, but to technology. Not that technology is inherently bad; it's just incredibly powerful and difficult to wield.
Giving in to the cynicism and playing along is the easy thing to do. I think it would behoove us to take a more optimistic approach.
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Some rapper said it, about the ghetto, in the 90's....'As much as I hate this motherfucker, I love this motherfucker'.
Well when you put it like this....
I see people my age both embracing technology and longing for the 'old days' when there was no facebook, and cops couldn't run your license plate with their cameras, etc. Yes, you feel like less of a person. Yet you are more 'known' or connected to what(?), connected to a database, where people who both love you and hate you can find you easily.
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I don't really long for the 'old days' (though I did finally delete my Facebook), I just think that there's a tremendous social power in technological connectivity that I don't think we've quite harnessed properly yet. It did help bring about a revolution in Egypt, which I think speaks for its potential for positive change. But as of now, I think most are still stuck in cynicism.
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Replace computer with phone book, phone book with village registrar, all the same.
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I'm actually just old enough to remember that idyllic time before the internet. I think kids born in the new millennium (who've nearly hit puberty, which is an odd thought) will have an interesting perspective on the matter as well.