We live in an age where there is growing disrespect for the principles and values that once formed the foundation for our coexistence and well-being as a society. The rate of change is increasing and unpredictable and so is the fickleness in affections, intentions, loyalties and choices. We take pride in the claim that we now live in a global village- a thinking that suggests that the world has now been condensed into a community, hence the enhancement of human connectivity. However, it appears this assumption is nothing but a virtual reality of impersonal relationships. Speed, which is a direct consequence of the technologies that connect us has created a hurry-up culture and depleted the quality of human relationships. We value ambitions and achievement more than we value people. Rather than being a community, as we would love to believe we have become an individualistic world. It is a rat-race where only the fittest survive without recourse to ethics or moral standards. So what do we have? Growing distrust, chaos and uncertainty. The common axiom is, “no permanent friends, no permanent foes.” People discard friendship, like used toilet tissue. Relationship is nothing but a use and dump routine.
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