It is not that there are no more einsteins or freuds, there are, and there are lots of them. There are great scientists and artists and thinkers around. The problem is that there is also a huge mass of "regular" people who are indeed becoming less and less real thinkers.
Big ideas and creativity need that we learn how to think and how and when not to think at all, not that we get habituated to any kind of compulsive information comsumption which is what all the social networking phenomena encourages.
It's not just social networking, it is in fact a feature of the internet itself, or even computers. We just NEED to learn to turn things off, once in a while. Tools are tools, and they are extremely powerful companions when we are their masters. Nowadays, however, we people seem to be technology's tools instead. We've gotta observe ourselves a little bit better.
Big ideas and creativity need that we learn how to think and how and when not to think at all, not that we get habituated to any kind of compulsive information comsumption which is what all the social networking phenomena encourages.
It's not just social networking, it is in fact a feature of the internet itself, or even computers. We just NEED to learn to turn things off, once in a while. Tools are tools, and they are extremely powerful companions when we are their masters. Nowadays, however, we people seem to be technology's tools instead. We've gotta observe ourselves a little bit better.