Today's Pandemic
It is Thursday, the 18th of December 2025. I have been thinking about writing my own book. But what would one write about? I wish to write like authors from the 1500s, but that seems a bit far-fetched. They just tend to conceptualize modern, or then modern, issues in such a terrific way. It seems like it’s just a gift or talent, the way they write sentences and create such authentic books.
I’m now only talking about what I reckon the books are like. I have never read a book from back then. It feels quite scary to really start. I find literature such an amazing concept, the idea that writing is art does not come as a surprise to me. To be able to create stories, either fiction or non-fiction, and write about it. Hundreds of words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters.
I feel like writing is not as much of a thing as it was in earlier days. Though I must say, writing was never really a big trend. But it just seems like there isn’t someone out there who writes of today’s issues. I mean someone of a young age, below thirty preferably, taking time to create their own book. Today’s pandemic is short form content. It genuinely fries the brain, I know it fried mine. I feel the lack of motivation and the urge to go back to the app and scroll some more.
The rise of AI and digitalization has come with its perks as much as it has come with downsides. On one hand AI helps in great ways, coming up with ideas, checking grammar, creating assignments that one forgot about, teaching you school material, explaining any and every topic. But as great as those perks are, it seems like the downside looms larger than the gains. The amount of water used per prompt, the idea that it makes our brain lazy, that it is taking over jobs, art is created using AI, causing it to lose the human touch.
Though one must ask, why do people feel drawn to AI this much? The answer is quite simple, people wish to feel heard and have a community, but with social media around and the fact that people don’t have as much of a collective cohesion as back then makes it difficult. AI helps, it’s always there, doesn’t make one feel stupid, you can tell it anything, and worse of all; it answers human like. One tends to forget it's artificial.
But that is to say, was there really a cohesion back then? Everyone talks about how social media killed romance, but did it really kill romance if everyone already acted in this way, but since social media makes everything so easily accessible, we can now see it all for ourselves.
It’s funny really, how in every timeline there something is to blame for the way we act.