Monday, May 11, 2015

The Dangers of Internet


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.

"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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