Shopping

This topic is a highly debated one because of its relevance in modern societies. Nevertheless, shopping, or better said, the activity of changing things between people in order to preserve a complex social structure, is one of the oldest steps of human evolution.

From this perspective, someone could think that shopping centres are only a way to keep this ancestral method of improving our lives. So, on the one hand, it’s a truth that they have helped us and have made our daily routine easier, not only to buy essential things but also to meet with friends and have fun or buy gifts and whims.

But, on the other hand, they have made many people lost their heads. Sometimes you could end obsessed by buying things and losing big quantities of money motivated by this capitalist society. And also, this waste of useless products have contributed to the pollution of cities and the shut down of many small shops, which are less prejudicial to the environment and mental health.

In conclusion, shopping centres could be useful, but in my opinion, one of them in each city is all we need, more than one is only a way to get more money based on the marketing strategies of big brands.

Rubbish journalism

Nowadays, we are used to living in a highly globalized world, where we can get in contact with other parts of the earth in the simple act of watching our mobile phones. That is to say, communication is really easy and for that reason, we don’t tend to take care when we publish something on the Internet.

Journalism, as it is said in the text, is changing because of the vast number of articles that have collapsed the red. As a consequence, becoming a trend or popular is almost as important as breathing for big brands and celebrities these days.

So here is a complicated relationship, the two parts need themselves, but is very frequently the fact of going further the limits. Moreover, not only journalists are guilty, we, as their customers, play a vital role here, if gossip is liked, journalism will make it.

As a conclusion, I think that a lot of celebrities are being affected by this phenomenon, some in a negative but other in a positive way (some people have reached the fame because of their extravagance and the social media gossip). So, this second fact is really bad for our society, because we are being influenced by people that don’t have anything to teach us, or almost something positive. We shouldn’t read those types of articles!