In today's society, I believe that we are focusing more on what we "think" we need instead of opening our eyes to what our necessities are. I mean, we're out there spending billions for war and nuclear development, yet we refuse to confront the problem of poverty. There are people that are dying everyday and we all know it, yet we are choosing to ignore that problem that is thousands of miles away.
I think that social media does this to us. What we deem as important has been told to us. Media encourages us to ignore those problems and gives us other problems to worry about that have no importance to us whatsoever. Not saying all media is bad, but it seems like people focus more on the superficial level of things, and not trying to dig deeper to what is happening in the world around us.
I really think that it is hard to break out of media's clutches. But I believe that it's possible with higher education. Education opens peoples eyes and mind, so that we can see what reality is and what truth is, also.
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