Technology is all around us; every day it is becomes absorbed into our daily life unnoticed. In fact, this essay would not be applicable if I wasn’t typing it up on a computer and sending it to a printing tool. This very phenomenon of technology has been adopted as part of our life, quiet like an extra limb that helps us out. So then if these tools have become so important to our living, why don't we ever study them? Philosophers such as Karl Marx and Wittgenstein have agreed and looked into this study in histories, such as the historical materialism in humans and ontology. Other than these few, not many have really persecuted technology. Why is this? While I am a deep thinker, and question everything in today's society, the majority of the masses have never even thought about it. Is it because some are plain oblivious and don't use their intelligence, or is it because our society and culture have ultimately brainwashed them? I find my friends and myself becoming very frustrated due to the lack of depth in anyone around us now a day. When I try to strike up something more in depth with college colleagues it shocks them and changes the tone of conversation dramatically. People become very awkward on any deep subjects, and brush it off and bounce back to something superficial that makes more sense to them. This sad reality makes the few that do look deeper, lost and seen as cranks sometimes because they see things no one else minds to notice. For one, I believe the unexamined life is not worth living

The Kardashians and Trumps of the world have become our power figures and our role models, and therefore consumption and more technology and superficial wealth have overcome all minds. Technology has once been seen as progress, but if this is "progress" I don't want to be in any part of it. People might say that the human relationship to technical things is too obvious to merit serious reflection. This is completely false, maybe on the surface level it's normal, but just look what technology has done to our culture and society. Look what it has done to the people and their minds. Need proof? The election of a TV show host should be enough for you or the fact that a television is now a child’s new babysitter. We revolve and rely on technologies for life itself, causing it to become "part of humanity" and "forms of life." For instance, I know that many that will look at their phones so many times a day the brain starts feeling like a phone, immediate gratification; jumping from one page to the next and actually causing many to get diagnosed ADD. A once focused kid turned into an unorganized sporadic teen because of the culture of immediate gratification. Teens are dropping out of college and high school, doing badly in school, and feeling like they should be millionaires already because technology and phones make them think they should. This causes an increase in people that feel they are not truly fulfilled and happy because they expect and compare themselves to the things on their screen and don't understand why they can't immediately achieve it. Bad morals have been adopted, creating the fundaments that cheating, lying, being rude, making fun of others differences, or making a sex tape (Kim Kardashian) are the ways leading to success and power.This pattern has taken shape, and people never analyzed it until having technology introduced into human life for a long time and finally realizing the bad effects. But is it too late now? Today technology is second nature and has changed the behaviors of generations. People must change and think like I think, not just superficially. So, instead of believing more, more, more, is better for us; more consumption of money, food, technology and overall, selfishness, why don't we remember the things that truly matter. Are we going to design and build circumstances that enlarge possibilities for growth in human freedom, sociability intelligence, creativity, and self-government? As we've seen, the trend today is not progressing our society and culture but the people have been going backward into traditional ways; focusing on materialistic, superficial importance. Wake up people and see what really matters in this world.