What Is The Loss Of Introspection

The New Era
In today’s society a phone, a laptop, tablet and even a book or newspaper is an arm’s length away. Becoming distracted is something today’s world is familiar with. Now a day in our free time, we don’t think, we don’t reflect on our life, our feelings, our future. We simply take our phone out and surf the internet. Introspection is a word we don’t hear of much, especially because we are losing it. The loss of introspection is important because with it we lose opinion, diversity and our goals. In many cases the loss of introspection is the loss of opinion. Bellow and Wayne both exhibit how people form opinions based on what the media has to show. Bellow states how he believes “the written word is untrustworthy and the spoken word irresponsible.” He accuses journalist and public figures of misinforming the listeners to come to right conclusion of a certain topic. Bellow says he shuns on the Sunday paper; it only informs the public of what they believe is important and in many cases, it is biased. They choose to write only about one side, the side they believe is right or the side that the public will be most entertained by. The public loses the need to introspect because the media is simply telling them how they should feel.
Bellow and Wayne states how in today’s culture faster is better. In today’s society it is easy to simply google a question and get the answer, but with it you take away the learning experience. The research becomes easier and the life lesson become less and less significant. Humans are very distractible; we lose sight of what is important. We make irrational choices at times because we do not take the time to think of the consequences. Choices that can lead us to bad situation with even worse outcomes. People must learn to introspect more, to keep their eyes on the price at all time and not take the easy way out. The loss of introspection means the loss of our