MargaritaSAYS: Gary Shteyngart In the World of Super Sad Love Story

Gary Shteyngart
I enjoy watching different Youtube videos and recently I came across Gary's Video. His recent book "Super Sad Love Story", I am reading it now, however at the time when I watched this video I had no idea what it was about. I enjoyed Garry Shteygart @Google Authors video very much.

I thought his book "Super Sad love story" was just a love story, which is true, however it is no ordinary love story, it's a reflection on our possible future world.

In the story, no one speaks anymore full sentences, and social media took over our lives, and became like a Big brother from Orwell's Novel 1984, where everyone knows everything about each other because of social media.
People are illiterate, and social media site like Face book encourages people to communicate in pictures without words, less words more fun.
And I see it's happening now like Instagram.
No more jobs left except media, credit and sales.
And Unites States is a third world country now.
We live in the world of self-expression where people tell you on twitter what they ate for lunch, and everyone is an author but there are less and less readers, and it raises the question of who is going to read your book and see your artwork, because everyone wants to be an artist and not an audience.
Gary mentioned that even though our economy is struggling right now, people applying for MFA in writing has been growing exponentially and tremendously.
If we will go at this rate middle of America will be left behind, because education in the USA is very expensive, and other countries offer it for free to their citizens, therefore there is huge gap between our education and other countries and the gap keeps on growing.
I In the book of Michael Lewis he point out that in Iceland the government pays you to go to college, therefore many people in Iceland have multiple PH'D and are very educated and advanced.

I also think by making it hard to survive and making money our "ruler" we are giving up creativity and progress because studies have shows that greater development happens in more stable economies and where there is not too much pressure to make money to survive.

I do not want the USA to become a country like in Gary's book, and I hope we will support education and not charge crazy amounts for education and turn it into business. We need to become socially mobile country again and we need to invest in our future generation, otherwise we will be left behind in the future, where the government forgives financial institutions for selling
bad mortgage loans, and derivatives. And yet student loans are never forgiven.

And the future is changing now so fast; every year it's a new life, new technology, new changes. Therefore, whatever you are writing today about no more relevant in one year from now or even sooner.

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