Social Outcasts Research Paper

For people today, we are much more actively pursuing the same mindlessness with our mouse clicking, finger poking, thumb typing, clued-out behaviour.

It is possible to check out mentally doing almost anything, even reading. The television, the Internet, social media all offer opportunities to check out and mindlessly pursue meaningless activity. They amplify the problem, but getting rid of them isn't the answer either. What was different about the social outcasts in the forest was not that they had books and nobody else did anymore, but rather that they were different inside, different mentally. Society had become mentally numb, but over time and through great effort their minds became the store for the living books. This doesn't mean we