"The world itself is just a big hoax. Spamming with our running commentary of bullshit masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy."
- Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
We're at that age where everyone wants to be known as something. That age where 'curving your own name' has taken serious measures such as doing whatever it takes to get some time of attention and recognition from others. Everybody wants to be famous. This is, more or less true. Everybody wants to be known and they want to be a force to be reckoned with. Someone will post something and others will have something to say about that post.
Have you watched the USA's famous TV series Mr. Robot? I'm a huge fan of that show, one, because any person who finds an irony in the apparatchik way of living will appreciate the depiction of psychological vulnerability portrayed by the meritocratic characters encountered on the show, second, because it's about hacking and committing a cyber crime that can shut the world down!
What I have managed to decipher from this show is how we, humans, being social animals are so prone to the lures of power, attention and success (also how Esmail really nails down the psychology of us social animals and what a brilliant hacker he is!) I have gained tremendous consciousness and awareness to the society I belong to and I have developed this habit of reevaluating every action I take and the actions of others around me, well, that is, when the show really gets to me.
Anyway, I want to address the type of people who have caught my attention on the internet - on twitter, facebook, instagram, tumblr and yes, snapchat. There are all sorts of people in the world (LOL) and surprisingly, a lot of people have adapted a persona on the internet that is somehow chanelling the person they desire to be. Slowly, we have lost our way into this whirlpool of personas we are so busy creating online that we have forgotten how to develop our real personas in real life.
I'm seeing the youth being more superficial than ever before and that being said, I am at the prime of it. I see people worshiping material things and monetary assets rather than the good willed nature that other's portray (hey, the Kardashian are paving the way so it;'s easy to follow). I guess good ol' fashion proper education and good jobs no longer means anything when you can just earn money by posing for the camera. But the problem is, everyone is copying and following each other.
I can only fathom what type of society our children will be brought up in if this is the situation right now. We need to unwind the material-worshiping and start teaching moral values again. We need to engrave the ways of decency and value traits like honesty, loyalty and good will in our minds before we slowly vanish into this superficial world we're creating.
