We live in a generation bombarded with information. Often overestimating the accuracy, importance, and wisdom of viral internet data.
The 12th most searched question in google is "what shall I do with my life?"(Miller, 2014). People searching the net for life's deep questions, to the point of skipping the process of contemplation itself.
The 12th most searched question in google is "what shall I do with my life?"(Miller, 2014). People searching the net for life's deep questions, to the point of skipping the process of contemplation itself.
"Books will promote forgetfulness; that people would be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing"
-Socrates
His line of thinking suggests that people put too much trust on information, produced by external characters [which are no part of ourselves], that it leads to the death of our critical faculties.
We have to stop thinking that answers are always out there. We have start thinking that we have a larger role to shape and create those answers.
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