It’s hard to keep up with the ways we are being duped daily, living in a fast-paced society of convenience, unlimited social sharing and a desire to get more for less. Numbed from the sheer quantityof what we take in, we forget that for every action, is a reaction.
Danish philosopher, theologian, poet and social critic Søren Aabye Kierkegaard summed it up when he said “As a result of knowing and being everything possible, one is in contradiction with oneself.”
If the philosopher/social critic were here today, what would he say of our use of social media. Could he have ever predicted such a worldwide platform could exist? And while we’re hitting him up with questions, what would he say about Sam Walton’s exercise in creating products at rock bottom prices for people who find worth in consuming?
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