Crisis, changes, new generation, new rules, new manners, new values. We are living in a time that everybody is connected to each other (and in a very few years everybody is going to know each other), so we would like to know is: Are you online???
Did you realized that things that use to take 50 years to happen are happening in seconds, the time is passing faster and things changes every single second? Kids are developing scarily fast and in a few decades the adult age will probably be reduce to the half. In the future, everybody is going to be a genius. Just take a look in our children.
The Occidental Society based education on fear used to obtain control: the news, the laws, the rules… Everything that happens is supposed to make you afraid. When you are a kid, you are supposed to be afraid of your parents or of the characters they create to make children behave themselves. But when you grow up, it is possible to learn and get to the truth. The truth can make you miserable, but will make you free as soon as you realize is much better walk around with your eyes open and have a real vision about what is in fact going on.
That is what Blogging is about. Most of people lives in the past, because they feel safe, it is supposedly more comfortable. On the other hand, way before this “Blogs Boom”, Blogger or the ones who understand Social Media are the ones who are not afraid of put themselves out there, ask questions and propose answers. Probably Bloggers, were for a while living in the living in the future, and living there has a price too. Most of people just don’t get what you are saying or trying to do. Probably…
What this whole Social Media revolution is doing. Giving to every single person the possibility of being their own media, express themselves as an unique person and as part of a community is actually bringing everybody to the present. And that is great!!!
Marshal McLuhan talks about it in the video below. What it understand why we said the “The Media is the Message”, or “The Medium is the Message”. He died in 1980 and what he said more than 40 years ago totally matches with what is happening nowadays. He was so ahead of his time, but everybody is getting together now, the present!
The video had been taken from the YouTube user Kenrg @ YouTube.com/User/Kenrg, who also believes that caming up with such terms as “the global village” and “the medium is the message,” Marshall McLuhan, predicted this all would happen.
