Together alone.

Humans are a weird kind of being. We want so much to be different, yet crave so much to be the same. We thrive to find our own identities, then search for others that also have similar identities. We want things that are just edgy enough to be cool, but still acceptable. It all resolves around the idea of "Accept me for who I am."

After reading Predictably Irrational I started to think a lot of the concept of uniqueness, especially in American Culture. The idea that we need to prove that we are our own selves tot he people around us. I find this idea very interesting, especially looking more into how it conflicts with the human need to be in groups and to have companionship.

It is very ironic that after reading the book and looking more into these concepts that I stumble across a video explaining it very well.

The Innovation of Loneliness

It focusses on the idea that as humans and following our need for companionship, we crave social media because it makes us feel connected, sometimes to hundreds and thousands of people. But are we really capable of maintaing that amount of relationships? According to the video, no. But we try. We develop our profile to create out ideal self, and unique individual, but then strive for other to "like" us and accept us, or at least what we want the world to see us as.

It is driving American society into a deeper loneliness than every before. How can this be considering we are the must connected generation ever? Probably because while we are connected, are we really making a connection?