Technology has exceeded our humanity

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Enslaved again. Indeed, this generation is filled with meaningless thoughts and is in a deadly spiral of nothingness. With grown minds, persons should not find it enticing to have the latest video of the next dying person in Jamaica or be so enthused to be the one to video and circulate it. What really is the gain? It's a heartless trend to just wield the phone out and tell your friends all the gory details of witnessing someone being bludgeoned by a concrete block, for example, or being stabbed to death.

As Daniel Thwaites mentioned, the crime situation in Jamaica is 'dead wrong'. Ironic enough, the citizens of Jamaica are always quick to whip out their phones to capture the next crime-related incident, car accident or altercation but never in time to capture the faces of criminals.

Neither the Government nor the prime minister has a clue about what they're doing. Succession planning and a strategic plan needs to be re-done pronto as this ZOSO is not quite IT, just as the other failing strategies they tried before. Murder rates still continue to increase five per cent each year, the criminals are relocating to other parishes and they bring along their friend 'death' with them; and our citizens are always on site to record it to make them memorable by publishing the graphic images and videos practically worldwide to every person that owns a social media account.

Shanice Brown