Is it us?

The whole world is presently undergoing a state of revisionism. Structures and ideologies are getting critiqued. The American Ideal of Democracy and ideas are now viewed with suspicion. America is dragging the world into chaos, and everywhere in this globalized world, there is a perplexity of what is right and what is wrong. The Elites have a clear view, but the ordinary individual is resigned to this perplexity. The ordinary man/woman has no firm conviction of what is good for the whole world.

This brings me to the fact of the mental buildup of individuals in Society. Have they allowed the process of technology to blur their senses? Has technology improved their mode of thinking or has it stagnated it? The concept of publics is indeed very difficult to pinpoint, due to the differences in demographics and other issues. Public Opinion polls tend to analyze the wider pulse of a unified public. But, even opinion polls are restricted by the sample size, due to which diversity is compromised.

The factor of People's mindset is underanalyzed in many studies. Either the mindset is too complex for analysis, or is too simplistic to have any bearing. Liberal democracies here in the West revolve around the sound decision making of the people whom they represent. But, liberal democracy, in its current outlook in this world, seems too rigid. The fact that people are getting what they want maybe offset by what do they REALLY WANT. Democracies are unable to satisfy the broader electorate, and hence leave them confused.

Technology aids the perplexity. Since, it provides a shortcut to decision making, people loose their analytical skill and reasoning, and so make decisions in haste. This mindset is the dominant one of the 21st century, in most palces where technology and Apathy dominate. From the point of view of Apathy, this is more of beleif than resources. Individuals, due to a succession of bad socio-economic struggles come to view everything as bad, and so refuse to do anything about it.

People function according to structures. This gives them order in the land of chaos. But, it is now the very structure that they live in which is prompting people to break or change it. I think the unstability in the world is all because of common people, because they JUST DON'T THINK. The future seems bleak. The structures may persist, but the people may not.