Excerpts from a Prolific Thinker

Our life on social media takes increasing space and progressively overtakes the reality of our being. That could be the underlying message of Stromae’s famous blue bird video clip. From an entertainment platform or means of communication, social media has progressively earned more and more influence on our lives and further, on our beings. Nowadays, the influence of social media on the formation of one's Identity is an area of research and analysis that many experts venture in. Social (and not only human) beings have come to internalize and accept the fate that they are bound to external forces in the process of building their behaviors, sometimes shutting down the outcry of their inner character, if ever available to them, that they fear would not fit what constitutes Society. A conception that we can witness, practically, through the common use of social media today. Human beings have been social from the very moment they were, but modernity bringing its own f...

Communicating in today’s world is as ambivalent as society itself, on the one hand it links people as it should, while on the other hand it operates as a simulacra, enabling individuals to fake connection when they are only creating air waves and not bridges. Communication is the framework in which we ought to exchange meaning, make sense of the surrounding, share a reality that we create together, as one body yet singular individuals. When human beings exchange with their fellow beings, they should share information, perceptions and values altogether and strive to express a common reality. Was it meant to create more cohesive groups and societies or polarize socially created opinions that individuals single out and fight for as their own? Is communication today what is keeping societies together by outlining a commonality of experience and understanding or has it become one that shapes and perpetually restructures our perception of the world, to the benefit of some groups which polari...