Jack White

"Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Opportunity doesn't do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier, and you can get home sooner but it doesn't make you a more creative person. That's the disease you have to fight in any creative field. Ease of use" -Mr. White

Humans are curious by nature, seeking to understand the mysterious ways our world and universe works,  and finding ways to live easier. Through technology mankind has been able to reach astonishing achievements: the discovery of electricity, the light bulb, microscopes and the discovery of the atom, telescopes and the discovery of new galaxies and black holes and planets, improvement in transportation (cars and trains and  airplanes), computers, nuclear energy and the atomic bomb and so on. And the list will keep growing. Everyone (including me) uses technology and no one complains about it (only those who do probably lack it); I wish I could drive so I could go home right after school and not walk in the heat, waiting for my ride and getting home late. We seem somewhat forced to use technology in this modern world but in America there's a huge issue we are facing and it keeps growing: our failing educational system and obesity. Possible causes? Being truly dependent on technology and becoming a product of society, which equals a loss in creativity.

Being lazy on a Saturday, I was on YouTube looking at music videos until an ad popped up, promoting a document on obesity. I thought of the usual, they are going to attack fast food companies for being hazardous to American lives. As I was about to skip the ad a statistic appeared on the video and left me somewhat startled; nearly 70% of Americans are obese and nearly 20% of American children are obese. I was somewhat disturbed by the fact. Thinking about about it, it made sense. Fast food joints on every block. Our habit of over consuming -living in excess. Our passionate love for technology. The educational issue of America-the rate of dropouts for both high school and college students is 50%. Add them up and you get the beautiful and huge America we live in today.

But one can't simply throw the blame unto Ronald McDonald or the King or Carl's for fat Americans (though they are a major influence on our modern epidemic), or Zuckerburg, or Dorsey, or Karp, or Chen and Hurley and Karim for making people addicted to the Internet and being less interested in school ( yet studies suggest that Internet addicts may struggle with real-life human interaction and a lack of companionship which can lead to depression, another issue in the us that takes a significant toll on America's health and productivity). The ones to blame are ourselves for what has been happening to our country and our health, creating these habits that just promote the laziness, procrastination, average and low intelligence. I heard (if I remember correctly) through a secondary source, a friend or my brother, of a woman who sued McDonald for making her fat ( I forgot what happen in her case and whether it was real, but I bet if she did win her lawsuit the first thing she did was eat at Wendy's or B.K. One can simply picture it). But in the end she is the one losing, for only

"A wise man will carefully avoid excess" -Maimonides

Most of us, especially teenagers and the young adult population, simply ignore or don't care because nothing has happened yet. But it slowly gets worse and next thing you know many will regret what they have become. If this problem lasts and continues in the near future, the image of our country will be really a disgusting portrayal of obese men, and women, and children, living easy and dull cyclical lives, wondering "Where did I go wrong?" Remember that every action has a result, every cause has an effect.