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Welcome to the era where everyone is hungry for likes, reposts, testimonials, raves, and pokes. This is when a lot of people become so superficial, when that much needed promotion of one’s work is relatively rampant in social networking sites, begging and buying to be noticed through a simple link or an invitation to visit what they have to say. It’s pathetic as Shalani Soledad’s hosting can be.
We like it when people like what we say even though saying or writing it is against or not fully based on one’s discernment. We are all fixated to the idea of belongingness in this lonely world, where conformity had been the basis of good citizenship, procurement of licenses, and grading systems in schools. These are the times where almost everyone thinks alike, act alike, and speak alike. Should one dare to say otherwise, persecution will sure follow. We have been clones, poets, speakers of everyone we see around us, copying little by little one’s beliefs and values and assimilating it to ourselves day by day.
We are the people who are glued to the standardization and expectations of the society. Truly, this has lead to the deterioration of our creative faculties and death of rational thinking, accepting all information there is to procure, holding them as truths without even processing what was even said. We have been consumers for so long, it time we do otherwise.
We live in an era where the consumers dictate to the writers what they want to read, writing to please the audience. This somehow concerns me, when was the last time the writer wrote to please himself? I believe we must do something to revive the glorious ways of thinking that led man to its present state.
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