Lately there has been much speaking of the ways in which technology has brought people together. I'm not just talking about reconnecting with your long lost friend from high-school (or, at least, spying on them), I'm referring to societies who cannot be propagandized into thinking there way of life is all that life has to offer (North African turmoil). In a way, the internet is another great equalizer of information (power); a sort of, leveling of the proverbial (I hate that word... I have no idea why I wrote it, but I'm going with it) playing field. Freedom to humanity is like the first drink to an alcoholic, once they realize what is out there, it becomes harder for oppressive regimes to lie there way through 40 more years of tap dancing on the backs of the people on whom they ultimately rely. This, to me, sounds like the most promising tool in the war on terror- INFORMATION. May it spread like wild fire and burn it's way through theocracy and idiocrasy.
But here, in the free world, we have reached a different form of mind-numbing (I'm not going to call it oppression, because of the self inflicted nature of this phenomenon) vegetableism. What are we really doing when we are on facebook. No, it's intellectually not much different than relaxing to watch a predictable romantic comedy, but if you were to watch 20-30 hour worth of romantic comedies a week, your view of reality, I imagine, would start to veer.
I really hope this isn't my version of elderly generational frustration. I think my point is valid. what do you think...
