America's Popular Culture is approaching complete convenience, we are also departing from our heritage, the ways of our past generations. We would rather stay firm in our laziness; live out fantasies through made up worlds, attaching ourselves to a mobile leash, and sacrificing family for extra curricular time. Americans have become reliant on convenience. The American culture relies on convenience so much that it can now be considered a part of our Popular Culture. Leaving behind only a vague memory, the good old days are done and gone. The idea of family night is a thing of the past, these days even the word family is used rather loosely.
There has been a break down within the family unit, quite possibly within the entire aspect of the American lifestyle. So why has it become more convenient to give up on family togetherness? What makes Taco Bell taste better than a home cooked meal? Why do Americans choose to wear a mobile leash? What divides families and drives them to spend as little time together as possible? The Internet, cell phones, Fast Food, these are just a few of the crutches Americans use to stifle family togetherness. Somewhere along the way, the average American's connection to reality, real life experience, and family has failed. As a culture Americans need to spend more time with their families and loved ones, and less time driving through the drive through, chatting on the cell phone, and fantasizing about fake realities while getting lost in the never-ending web of the online world.
Somehow, while The Internet has been said to be the greatest form of human communication. It is many things but is it really the greatest form? With its ideas all twisted and so many personalities all searching for something, but truly lost in a cyber world, with no end. If by some chance you, under some sort of miracle, were able to find the end of the internet, there would be a little message box that says, "Error: Internet connection failed," and suddenly your back at the beginning again. Would it be too much to ask for us as a family to communic2238ate with each other instead of possibly imaginary people we meet on the net?
Our entire culture is based on a need for convenience, which has replaced our idea of the American family. People across the U.S. rely on the internet, a make believe world of pretend and illusion to entertain themselves. Adults and minors alike rely on the convenience of Fast Food. Children gain unnecessary freedom by getting connected through the cellular world. Our entire popular culture seems to be surviving off of need, the need for convenience and technical advancement. We are out on the town, attached to a leash that makes us within a phone call or an e-mail away from anyone who might need something from us. Soon we will all have chips in our wrists replacing the all famous wrist watch. Accompanied by a chip in our heads that connects us to a giant satellite in the sky transmitting our thoughts across the world, by phone, internet, fax, text, however and whenever necessary. Is this what we are becoming as a species? Will we all end up with no privacy or time to ourselves, caught up in a robotic cyber world, unavailable to the reality that surrounds us?
The ball is in our court, as American's we need to make the choice to sacrifice convenience to preserve our relationships, our health, our families, our lives, ultimately: the structure of our future society. You may now be wondering what you can to do to change something as huge as society, but its possible. Each person has their own individual power that can produce results never even within a flicker of imagination. It starts with one person, one act, and one destiny, from that it grows into a nation of people who believe in something, something that can change lives, one at a time. Now, this belief can be applied to many things, spiritual, political, and of course to preserving the family unit, the ancestral and historical involvement in creating our future generations. Choose to accomplish life by your own power, not by society's popular culture.
Become an individual. I'm not suggesting that we should all throw our cell phones in the toilet, our laptops out the window, scratch Fast Food out of our vocabularies, or throw our extra curricular activities to the side, all I am saying is can't we find some sort of balance between real world experience and technology, for our kids, our lives, and our future. Somewhere the connection has failed: the connection with real people, with real food, with the idea of home, family, and the survival of our history. Americans are constantly standing in the dark, waiting for the next big thing to happen, instead of enjoying the everyday lives they have made for themselves. As I have already posed throughout this essay, an individual choice must be made regarding our contribution to changing the world into a technically advanced masterpiece. What we each do will influence the change, for better or for worse. We need to decide if we want to have the chips installed in our wrists and heads, or if we want to be individuals with the ability to tune out the outside world and spend time with our families. My choice is obvious, is yours?
Rae Serenity
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