Society has become an aggravating, frustrating and anxiety producing place. It used to be if you wanted to make a doctor’s appointment or speak to someone from a company, you could dial a number and reach an actual human being. Now we reach automated messages and no one ever calls back. If you owe money and you get constant messages about your bills, and you want to speak to someone to understand or dispute a bill, you cannot reach anyone. You basically feel dehumanized. Nobody cares about you. The big companies want to force you to do what they want: pay what they want, or frighten you into doing what they say. They do not care about you as an individual. This is the problem today. We lose our individuality. We feel like we do not matter to anyone.
Unfortunately, this has spilled over into segments of life, including the family. We also often feel nobody cares. Everyone is busy with a million things and nobody has time for people anymore: not for parents, children, friends. People have more “important” things to pursue….
We are losing that human touch, that happiness that comes from family, friends and others. That is why so many people feel lonely, depressed, full of anxiety…..things do not feel right. And in reality, things are not right.
But it is being done on purpose: to strip us of our humanity, of our moral and family values, and to force us to conform with whatever the big corporations dictate. We may think we live in a free society but in some ways this is just like communism but in a hidden way. We think we have a voice but we are shut down. We think we have rights but in reality nobody cares what we say or think: it is all about control .
We need to become conscious of the way social media, the news, society, big pharma, corporations and others have developed strategies to force us to believe their lies and to accept what they want and say. WE need to fight back, to refuse to accept lies. If you read something on Instagram or in facebook, who is saying that? If you read something in the news or in google, who is the authority? In other words, who are we allowing to rule our minds? We need to know who is really an expert on something. Everyone on social media wants to sound like an expert. Do not accept whatever you read or hear. We have the Torah to guide us in what is right or wrong. And in matters of health, we need to know who is saying what they say and what evidence do they have? Nothing should be accepted just like that. That is the danger for children: they do not have the knowledge or ability to know when to believe something or not.
Let’s work to keep the human touch going, to keep our moral clarity, to fight for our rights….this is the only way to ensure a healthy society and a good future for our generations.