Honestly, it is sad to see that kind of mindset. The world as we know today is certainly shifting. It reminds me that back in the day we didn’t grow up with smartphones but then, smartphones are now everywhere. This is just like AI where now, it seeps into every part of our lives and in a year or two, we can be so reliant on it and there will be no going back.
It is hard to imagine a world without smartphones/Internet, but it takes just a few hours to realize the effects that they have on us... I would say that the Internet is behind "modern problems", and smartphones are just one of the arms... Not sure if you heard the news when we had a blackout in Spain and we didn't have electricity AND mobile signals at all... Which means, no Internet too!
In the first place, people began panicking... after a few hours, people began to turn on the old battery-powered radios (including myself 😃), to hear what's happening... When we KNEW that it would pass, I went for a walk and saw so many people doing the same, walking on the street, chatting with each other, enjoying life... So, it doesn't take too much to "see the other side", but it is a big challenge to fight the "addiction"...
Regarding young people without motivation... I would say it's information overload... The "negative" news was present before too (they sell the best), but not in this magnitude... which is overwhelming...
I have this guilt of watching too much aesthetic interior design content. I wanted to own a place that looks as aesthetic as those perfectly curated houses.
I'm guilty of the same thing... Caught myself so many times that I want to COPY what I saw, instead of CREATING something MINE! Killing my own creativity...
Good read! Take care!
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