FACEBOOK IN AMAZONIA
Facebook and other social media now
invade even the relative calm of Amazonia, in addition to the industrial food
culture of North America.
I am reading SAPIENS by Yuval Noah
Harari. He says: Even today the majority of human communication (Facebook,
email, twitter and mostly quick, grammatically incorrect short messages- Dr.
S.) is GOSSIP. Perhaps that is why a magazine like PEOPLE can sell millions of
copies.
While I appreciate the availability
of cell phones (how wonderful it is in case of a medical emergency!) or social
media; I do not participate in them. American Indians, who has a fundamental
concept of RELATIONSHIP, find the telephone as well as the Social Media of
immense help in enhancing Relationships.
There is a suggestion that people
(Non-Indians, Immigrants to rich countries) who use these media excessively do
not have real life friends.
Perhaps this is what our
grandparents felt when telephones arrived, and people began spending long hours
on the phone gossiping.
This is EVOLUTION but cannot call
this PROGRESS
