Consumer culture.
I had heard this phrase when I was in Berlin two months ago. I was talking to doctor, who was writing a work about nowadays religion. We talked about Belarus of course, but we came too conclusion, that situation with youth is similar in all over the world, just the scale is different. Than he mentioned this term consumer culture.
This is the largest social change between all last century's changes, I think. years ago Clive Staple Levis wrote about earlier symptoms of this, I can't even imagine how much worse things become.
The problem is not just about 'consuming', but the way of live. It's the balance between take and give. Technology gives a possibility for people to take without hurting anyone, and mankind gladly uses this possibility. And give is going into oblivion, step by step, year by year. And without give we have no other motivation to grow, but have a possibility to consume more. People are closing at their small worlds, they have no real friends, because you can find one only when you have a difficulties to challenge your friendship - game farm isn't good enough. People think that they know a lot about world, but this is just an illusion, real world has different kind of problems. So, with friendships out (and just-for-talk-friendships in) mankind become so fragmented and easy to control by new toys, beautiful words and idealistic promises, that I'm surprised how Armageddon hasn't come yet.
We a living by film's characters lives and challenges, not by our owns. We feel ourselves as heroes, but in reality we are lazy, and worst of all - we see nothing wrong in it.
Information storm, a lots of information, from your friends on facebook, or blog to news about anything you want. And we just sitting and consuming, consuming, consuming... Live without choice and challenge, era of half-man. This is very sad my friends, and not good at all.
I want to say too much on too small number of words. If I'll write more - no one gonna read it, and if someone do he will do this just for discussions, not for changes. But changes in individual's live - this is what I want.
Think and do - this pair is indivisible and become frustration and mess after dividing.