Technocrappy

Who doesn't have a cell phone nowadays?

In fact, who doesn't have a phone capable of doing almost all of the basic capabilities of a computer? You can go online, message people, send photos, see videos... the possibilities are endless.

And whenever we come across something that seems endless, what do we do? We abuse it. We grasp it and consume it and make the damnedest point of including that into every aspect of our lives like there's no tomorrow. Humans are children of exaggeration. It's never enough, with us.

So now you walk around and everybody is doing it: chit-chat, txt, facebooking, twit-twit. Mass-communication in the reign of technology.

And then the media catches on to that, and where TV was already bad, it gets worse: they talk about these stupid trends and new "social" rules that one must follow when communicating wirelessly. And then, guess what? Monkey see, monkey do.

I get it - we have a need to share things, to let others know about our achievements, mishaps, opinions, and life in general. Trouble is (and I paraphrase a very intelligent individual here) we are using that which should facilitate communication to replace communication.

We are tearing the strongest threads of human fabric: our social ability.
No? You don't think so? You think texting and all of that is being social?

It is not. It is yet another façade; another mean of escape, of hiding what is buried deep within each of us; what makes us true.

Sure, we have this drive to share things, but we also learned to hide that which either can never be seen or is too delicate to be seen.

This technocracy is just another way of expressing our mistrust for one another. And, as fast as it's happening, it will turn us all into...

... engineers!

=)

Joke aside, it will turn us all into people unable to truly connect; unable to show the best within ourselves; unable to exercise such best things; unable to feel all the things we should feel, from the greatest love to the deepest sorrow.

Life may be full of misfortunes but it does have merit. Let us not throw our tremendous depth and our infinite collection of wondrous and magnificent creations away just for a safe place behind a screen.

Let's get over ourselves already, before it's too late. What a practical joke it would be.

What a joke it already is.