Granted, a global EMP may be much, but it paints the big picture all at once. Technology was supposed to help us, yet all it’s done is tilt the balance in favor of the “cons” side.
We have become consumed with electronic information. It’s replaced the human experience. Look at concert videos. It’s a sea of phones. I’d ask why do people pay for a live event to view it through their phone, but I know the answer – To get it posted on social for those “likes and follows”.
Today I believe there is more disinformation floating in the ether than anything else. An endless sea of politically-tied messages. Between people who earn a buck keeping everyone on the verge of an anxiety attack and politically-tied groups who just want to watch the world burn – that which connects us all has become a tumor through which cancer flows through our eyes and directly into our collective brains.
Some things are worth the sacrifices we face in order to have them. This isn’t one of those.
Turn if off. All of it. Go back to knowing your neighbor because you take time to go say hello, not because you have a membership to “wholivesbesideme.com”. Instead of digitally LMAO, how about I see you chuckle face to face? I’d happily take a handshake over a “thumbs up” emoji.
Endless Information may be out there, but it’s doing more to separate us from the human experience than anything. Social anxiety is on the rise and COVID-19 was the “accident” that pushed it to top gear.
People retreat to their indoor safe spaces in an effort to hide from the world… yet are more exposed than they ever have been to the toxins that pollute this world. Today your neighbor doesn’t know your name, but some guy with a name you cannot pronounce has your full identity, phone number and banking information because you were phished, scammed, or a social media page you subscribe to was hacked… all while you were absorbed into a digital existence.
Do we need tech to advance? Of course we do… Just not most of it.
Off The Rails 
People now have knowledge but not wisdom.
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