What We Love Will Ruin Us

I remember seeing a picture on iFunny awhile back that said something along the lines of, What would be the hardest thing about modern society to describe to an alien and the answer was, That I posses a device that can access almost all the information in the world, yet I use it to watch kittens yawn. This post was funny at the time but had no real impact on me till we read the essay question about Aldous Huxley in the novel Brave New World (1936). He feared that future society would be oppressed by the the excess of information. That people would, "adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think." For the most part he was accurate, society has become obsessed with technology that was created to inform, but now is used to entertain. In gaining access to infinite knowledge we give up the determination to obtain knowledge on our own. We allow ourselves to fall into the oblivion of entertainment and fake statistics since we at least know its false, and are forced to question the validity of everything. For example several times in Ap Biology the notes start getting very precise with so many specific details that I start questioning why I need to even know this. How do people even find this anyway? Who even cares what type of bond hold adenine and thymine together? This is exactly what Huxley feared. Since we are given so much access to knowledge we don't care enough to actually study it and instead fail to find the significance in it. This form of oppression is very effective as the truth is hidden in a bunch of lies making everything seem questionable. Huxley also predicted that, "what we love will kill us."  With the abundancy of aimless entertainment present in the many Tv series/movies, YouTube videos, and apps like iFunny, there is an abundant amount of time wasted. Aldous Huxley was absolutely right in his assertion of the future of society.