Author name: Dante Sisofo

You stop education after grade 8, learn to build, live off the land, and create big families. No distractions and no connection to the culture of the city. Just God, your family, and your neighbors. Everybody has a role to play and works towards a common goal that benefits both the individual and the collective as a whole.

While technology has given us access to unlimited information and power at our fingertips, I do believe there are plenty of downsides. How is it that we have god-like capabilities with tablets that fit in our front pockets, but people suffer from more depression and anxiety than any other generation before technology? I think this has to do with the instant access we have to the news of the world. The screen time we spend can not be good for us and ultimately effects everyone’s sleep. I think people are more tired than ever because they sleep with a phone. It’s time to reconsider how we interact with technology in our lives. I believe the upside is that we can use it as a creative tool to propagate more beauty into the world through the voice of the individual. We are all artists when we were born and have the ability to share our unique perspective with others.

Whether it’s the protesters that advise me not to eat animal products when I go to the local farmers market in Rittenhouse or the “stop the oil” people that stand outside of City Hall and tell people to stop driving, I simply don’t get it. I believe that environmentalists should put all of their efforts towards planting trees and stop worrying about people’s personal life choices. Ultimately I don’t trust them because the environment doesn’t directly benefit the human. The human conquers the environment. Maybe we have less procreation today because we’re too worried about the environment?

The more money people have, the more problems people make up for them to solve. When I consider the Industrial Revolution, automation, and modern cities, I imagine it like a prison. All money is used for some sort of debt whether it’s paying for your shelter, food, or useless goods to fill the void in your life. People that inhabit a city are merely paying for their survival by serving someone else and climbing the corporate ladder. Self pleasure seems to be the focus in modern life. Go to the office, play on your phone, come home, watch TV, repeat. What ever happened to pain and sacrifice? We’ve become so accustomed to luxury that we have no desire to procreate and do anything to give ourselves real purpose.