TED Conversations  This conversation is closed. Start a new
conversation or join one »  is the death of free thinking down
to society or our education system?  There has been a recent
demise in the amount of free thinking done in the world. if one
compares our generation in comparison to other decades, protests
of 70's, creativity of 80's and innovation of 90's, on must ask
the question, why do we no longer question things or fight for
what we believe in? I originally believed it was society, that
we believed that there was nothing more to think of, nothing new
after computers to think of, that we had reached the final
frontier according to society. As well as there not being a
cause high profile enough for people fight for, nothing like
Vietnam for people to fight against. Then i realised that
possibly it is not society or what is happening that is killing
our need to free think, fight and/or innovate. Yet are we not in
the same situation as past generations? Eg. They invented the TV
but we felt the need to