Computers are evolving at a rate we just can’t match. They can look through hundreds of documents and find which ones are relevant to any situation, within seconds. Brooks says that people in America are starting to become more practical in their thinking and are not being creative because of this.
However, there are those few though. Those few who still believe in creativity and connecting with other people. These few people are creating a new “Romantic Age.” These people look up to heroes of courage, who would lay down their life for their cause. They look up to heroes of compassion, who live to serve. Then there are the heroes of serious thought, who battle perplexity like Socrates.
The majority of people should start looking up to heroes of that stature. People need to stop being more practical and start being more creative. Being realistic is overrated. Every aspect of our normal lives a hundred years ago was unfathomable, and completely unrealistic to the standard of living that exists today. Thank God the people who made all of the technology we have today didn’t believe it was unrealistic at all.
-Noah
Works Cited
Brooks, David. "The New Romantics in the Computer Age." New York Times. New York Times. Web. 13 Sept. 2015.