General ConceptualizationVersus Detail
The process of abstraction in today’s society could be creating a false image of what is real and what is not. Abstraction takes away from focusing on the details of a specific topic and giving a generalized concept of certain key elements.
The problem today is that if we are focusing on the general concept and not really giving the society, community or individual the key building elements within any process, then the narrative being presented will miss key details. Whether in political, economic or social levels within society, in becoming generalists we are losing what could be a view to the problems that could exist within the details.
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This further reflects on the individual and social media, as the process of thinking and analysis to create positive solutions is being replaced with being offered a more generalized approach to society, community and the individual. Social media are formatized entities in the end, following generalizing algorithms. By its essence, a format is nothing individual.
What has separated man from other animals has been the ability to analyze, create detailed information, that in turn can offer the solution to the problems at hand. In becoming generalized, we as humans are losing our ability to think, create and deal with detail. Therefore the generalization of factors and the usage of technology to look at all our problems could lose for humans the ability to think and differentiate between what are the details needed to deliver a concept that will be functional.
