After reading both books, Brave New World and Amusing Ourselves to Death I noticed a majorette theme of controlled worlds and lack of communication. The whole book written my Neil Postman was based on how we’re losing connection with others and not even noticing. Technology has taken over our lives and left us with less information we came in with. As of BNW, their whole society is based on the restriction of open thoughts, not being able to talk about whatever comes to mind! In today’s world, technology has taken over our lives as well. People would rather FaceTime than meet in person, we hangout with our friends just to go back on our phones, and worst of all we lost the deep conversations we used to have with others. I remember when I was in elementary, I didn’t have a phone till 6th grade, but wow, the whole elementary life of just being so excited to go on the swings, hanging after school, and socializing with all my friends leaves me in awe. Look what we’ve lost now that we have these little screens with funny videos and unrealistic expectations.
I agree people have forgotten to communicate to each other in person. Whenever meet to talk in real life it gets awkward after a while, but when they text each other they sound or text normally as if they were talking in person. Whenever I go out to hang out with people in real life I honestly enjoy my time more than I would if I were to just chat with them online because I am living the experience instead of just typing and then forgetting it later on. Technology should not be the priority of lives and that idea must be taught to everyone because we may even reach a point to where people don't want to even go outside or to even see each other.
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