Our Society and Its Manko

Basically, it would mean that the latest technologies have been used in these little machines. So basically, the concept of these machineries is totally put in question. Communicational requirements are no longer top priority. Health, security, safety, and guarantee (of over one year) are no longer issues. The better the machines, the more fragile they seem to get, and of course, the more widgets it has, the longer it takes to understand them, the longer the person is exposed to it, which leads to, you guessed it, health issues. The University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States of America) stated that cell phones, when under extreme exposure, may lead to certain health factors, meaning consequential diseases or illnesses. 

Disregarding the fact that the health factor is partly scary, the main critique is not the high technology invoked in these machines. It is the mass consumption and materialistic mentalities of the majority of the people in our society. Is it, in fact, a replacement to a certain emotion called “happiness”, or something else? Do people try to stack as many luxurious goods in their home to replace something? Goods that are not existentially necessary?

It is a fact that our society does not have to question existentiality, nor even think about it. Our society is a luxury society, where materialism replaces certain “holes”.

To cut things short, the shimmering light of “money”, concerning their work, the materialistic mentality, and of course the consumerism, blinds people. When someone would come up to me and tell me about a job offer they have received, the first thing said is the amount of money they’d get, not what the job is specifically about. And that depresses the hell out of me. Certain values do not have the correct priority anymore. That is the way our present society runs.