The next step

In a burst of enthusiasm I sent out a blast of emails announcing to all and sundry that I have knocked on the doors of the bloggers world and have managed to gain entry. A well meaning friend immediately pointed out that 'Thinking aloud' was an important subject area since increasingly one is expected to tow the line and essentially not have an independent opinion. One of my posts 'laments human desensitisation and my friend said so what's new, everybody speaks of it - what next?
We are flooded with choices and the same applies to our means of information. If you are not hooked to one of the many - newspaper, radio, TV, Internet or to even one of this, well then you would stick out like a sore thumb in your peer group. Since time is a premium for most of us, we make do with a smattering of information we gather while on the pot or on the way to office, couple this with what our friends and colleagues gathered while on similar missions and make a so called 'informed" opinion of our own. Over the years we each have become a cynic/critic in our own right. Desensitivity is but a natural outcome. Can we really change this ... I don't really see how. Evolution is the reason. We have now evolved into creatures that thrive on such goings-on. I feel that our generation can actually talk of desensitization only because we have stood at the threshold of two worlds - one where there was no access to information and the other where all you need to do is pick up your phone, punch a few buttons and voila!!!
Give it a generation or so - there will be no talk of desensitization. Reactions which we consider worthy of comment today will be passe tommorrow. Evolution will result in our society having a totally different set of emotional structures to debate on.