Technology and Social Discourse

Technology has changed the way how social discourse is conducted in America and the world. Before the age of the internet, people got their information from TV, newspapers, books, or the radio, and it was a lot harder to find what you were looking for. Nowadays, with the age of the internet and smart technology, it is extremely easy to find information about any topic fairly easy. Now, the challenge is not that it is hard to find anything. No, nowadays, it is hard to figure out what is and isn't true. There is so much information available at our fingertips that it is hard to figure out what's true and what's not. That can be overwhelming for a lot of people, because now, it forces people who want to find out the truth to actually research all of the information that is presented to them, and determine for themselves whether or not something is true. This is also a good thing, because it allows people to break out of their comfort zones and bubbles to find out what themselves what is and isn't true. It gives people a chance to go out and understand the information and points that are being made from many different sides of politics.

Will people do that, however? Who knows. Some people will, but I don't know if everyone will, because with the age of the internet and technology, there is also a lot more distractions and entertainment that is readily available to people, such as video games, music, movies, TV, app games, anime, manga, digital books, YouTube, etc. Not only that, but there may be some people who may not want to step out of their comfort zones. It could to be too scary and frightening to do so, so instead, they'll just stay complacent in their current situation, even with myriads of information available to them.

What I do know is is that I will try to use the internet to my advantage. I will try to do as much research as possible about everything. Whether I'm right or wrong is irrelevant, because I don't know all of the answers, and I may never know all the answers. At best, I'll only have part of the truth. There may be so much more that's out there that I don't know about and that I may never know about, and that's okay! I will try not to get bogged down by the fact that I don't have all of the information and may never have all of the information. As a skeptic, that is something that I believe we all have to accept. People who say that they know the truth are full of themselves. No one knows the truth, at least not the full truth. Even people with exorbitant amounts of power don't know the full truth. None of us do. We don't know what's out there in space. We don't know what happens after we die. We don't know what's below the Earth. We don't know how life came to be. We don't know what's at the very bottom of the oceans. We don't even know about consciousness and our own brains. We don't know about any of those things; at least, not fully. We only have parts of what could possibly be a grand and vast truth; one that none of us may be able to comprehend. Will we ever find that truth? Maybe, or maybe not. Whatever the case is, one thing that is for sure is that as far we can tell, we will never know the full truth about anything, and that is something that I accept.