Technology

In the current digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second; preserved in all it's tritness, never fading, always accessible; rumors of petty issues, misinterpretations, slander.

All junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate, it will only slow down social progress.

The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtaposition of morality around us. Billions spent on new weapons to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their own victims. Although there are people in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species; everyone grows up being told what to do.

"Be nice to other people."

"But beat out the competition."

"You're special, believe in yourself and you will succeed".

But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed.

You exercise your right to freedom and this is the result. All the rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.

Everyone withdrawals into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum; they stay inside their little ponds leaking what ever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.

The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh, no one is invalidated but no one is right. Not even natural selection can take place here.

The world is being engulfed in "Truth". And this is the way the world ends. Not with a BANG, but with a...