Globalization Of Superficiality Analysis

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As I sit here, typing this essay, I look out onto the quad, watching my fellow students, professors, and other Loyola community members make their way to their next destinations. While some walk alongside their fellow students or professors, I can’t help but notice that the majority are otherwise engaged. Most of them walk with their heads down, mouths shut, phones out, and earbuds in, completely engrossed with the phone in their hands and almost oblivious to the world around them. These types of behaviors, mainly focused on technology, self-interest, and the most convenient route that requires the least amount of effort, have become accepted as the norm in our community and in society at large. Instead of having direct, verbal conversations with others, a text or a direct message is sent. Disagreements between individuals are now “solved” by a quick click on the “Unfriend” button on Facebook or the “Unfollow” button on Instagram. People are choosing to just read the large-font headline on the covers of magazines and move along with their day, instead of stopping, …show more content…
Nicolás, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, has determined that the globalization of superficiality is marked by the short-circuiting effects of rapid technological growth, excessive global consumerism, and pluralism of choices on the depth of thought and the authenticity of human relationships. He claims that, by a world where information is at our fingertips, we are losing our abilities to think and are choosing to shy away from digging deeper. Because we can just Google where the best pizza in Rome is, people will never eat terrible pizzas and eventually appreciate the smell and taste of the best pizza. Almost daily, I watch those around me take the latest Facebook post they see as the truth, without thinking for a second that there could be more or that they could be reading false information. Instead of reading the newspaper, people are more inclined to read a 160-character

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