I strongly believe that our society is going backwards or rather stagnating. We have stopped developing long time ago. Now, we just have an obsession after obsession after obsession just melting into one another.

Everywhere you look you see someone obsessed with something; protein, fitness, traveling, eating healthy, changing faces, body parts, partying… you name it. But all of it has only one core issue: attention. But the attention that goes both ways. It goes to those that seek to give it and to those who are desperate for it. And both sides are equally lost. Just because I’m aware of it or openly criticizing it, doesn’t mean that I’m immune to the same problem. I sure once was in the same spot as the above-mentioned. Somewhere in between these issues, we stopped moving forward. Our planet is on fire, but we are focused on our protein intake, our plastic surgeries or imaginary problems. There are unfortunately people who really do suffer and have no time to think about the world and its dying glory.

We developed everything so freakishly fast that we forgot to develop ourselves. We forgot how to fine tune compassion, honesty, morality and integrity. Running in our face paced environments as corporations like to call it, we completely ignored the world around us, nature and other living beings. Instead, we focus on who viewed my story, how to get engagement on social media, what is trending now; what kind of surgery is being done by celebrities, which new brand is trending, which food ingredient is being cancelled now for no apparent reason. And we do all of this for attention. Attention is the most expensive thing nowadays. Yours, mine, even I’m trying to buy your attention when I write all these things.

More often than not, real life feels like an episode of Black Mirror, but there is no escaping it. You cannot exit the app and just go on about your day. What freaks me out, is seeing so many jobs that ask you to train the AI. Train it for what? To take my job? To kill the creativity? My moral code cannot allow me to do that. I can’t even apply. The world is dark and scary right now. It feels like a scene from the apocalypse movie. But there isn’t one. Unfortunately?

But hey, not all is lost. I like to believe that when humans work on themselves, they attract people with similar values and then the world can change. That’s why they say that the change starts with one person. If we don’t let the machines use precious resources, the chances of AI taking over our lives gets smaller. So, for the love of god, please use your brain or just a good old search engine. Thought process should be done in your brain, not some external source.