Are You a Whiff of 'FRESH AIR in a POLLUTED ENVIROMENT' ?

Are You a Whiff of 'FRESH AIR in a POLLUTED ENVIROMENT' ?

Let's face it.  The world we live now is not as it was fresh during the time of our early ancestors.  Literally and figuratively, the world we live in now is polluted no less but this piece is NOT about the environment.  This is all about how the world we live now where we are heavily wired and connected, such that information travels faster than it used to be.  Agence France Press, Reuters, Associated Press, they've become non-entities now.

Instead, social media has literally taken over our lives.  What's the commonality between that chef in the kitchen, that assistant in a church service, workers at work, medical personnel readying up things for a medical procedure/operation, a bus driver, name it.  They are all glued to their smart devices no less.  Even this pic looks fiction but do we agree this was a very common sight prior to this pandemic ?

Even friends and couples, in the middle of all the food servings, each one is so engaged in their respective smart phones.  Pre-pandemic, do you recall in the workplace, while waiting for the remaining attendees in the meeting room, instead of reaching out to each other, at least for those informal 'HOW's YOUR FAMILY' etc, everyone is just so hostaged to their smart phones.  Are we not living in a polluted environment now ?

Do we agree that we should not be shackled by social media as we have become willing captives ?  But that is not our biggest problem these days.  Instead, it's the flurry of misinformation, wrong information, fake news and peddlers of anything untrue via the proliferation of social media trolls. By initiating inflammatory and offensive provocations, it incites emotions on a big chunk of information that comes out in the form of fake news.  Of course, governments have crafted laws to put order in a chaotic and polluted environment but can any Tom, Dick and Harry quickly avail of pro bono legal services to right the wrongs via the cyber laws ?

I thought it's a welcome relief because NON-SMOKING is barred in almost all public areas.  But how about our cyber smoking ?  Don't we see ourselves as part of today's polluted environment when we lit our cigar [which happens once we grab our smart phone and get hooked to it even if we got more important things at hand ?  Can we be the 'FRESH AIR' in this polluted place ?❗❗❗