Knowledge and Individuality?

A look into the superficial world of Millennials.

Look around you. Chances are, you’ll find someone, or know someone who’s totally engrossed in their phones, their social life. And they live and breathe it. Their pursuits includes looking for the latest trends and the latest celebrity gossip. Sad to say, this isn’t a social minority; on the contrary, it’s very very common. We’re beginning to live in a trivial world.

We’re living in a time of significant technological and scientific progress, and information is available everywhere, for free. Almost anybody has access to it via our smartphones and computers, yet it is being drowned out by trivial celebrity gossips and superficial stories. Our role-models have changed. Gone were times where people like Marie Curie and Niels Bohr are looked up to. Nowadays, society as a whole is much more interested in “Keeping up with the Kardashians” instead.

Mellennials are much more superficial, and “ignorance is the new cool”. As we become more connected socially, we’re becoming more disconnected with the world, and I’ve met people who do not know what’s happening in the world currently (conflicts, diseases, sociopolitical change), but they do know what’s happening in Hollywood and their celebrity “role-models”.

We have to change.