Only the rich have the luxury of being relevant The world as we know is only of the people who generate enough value for society. Take, for example, the news; all the major news being covered only concerns the West or European countries, and in some cases, if a meme comes from that nation, But no mention of the raging wars going on in Northern Africa, the independence bid for Somaliland, meltdown of the economy in Vietnam. These stories are seldom covered but a guy casually winning Silver in shooting seems more important. Don't get me wrong, everyone is entitled to what they like but we as a society would be filled with ignorance no matter how much we enjoy it, and with ignorance comes the burden of Polarizing opinion. Thus coming back to my point of being relevant in the modern world you need to provide some kind of value to others, be it entertainment or be it monetary.
Do you even matter in society? I used to think every individual is important in society, society is an amalgamation of us individuals. But lately, I have been finding out that, it is just some of us that matter or some of us that make the society. Let's take my point of view, I am a college graduate currently employed in a tech company. I spend my day working for this company and so do my colleagues. The company in turn finds work from various clients. The client in turn is looking for various customers to sell that product to get paid and pay the company, and in turn we get paid. Here though we keep working and giving our best, what does this contribute to society? Who does this help? These are just some of the questions that bug me sometimes. We are raised not to think with such a negative outlook on life... thinking like this only makes us more of a nihilist. But the ideology, as put forward by philosophers like Nietzsche, doing just for the sake of doing the work loses its appe...