the change that new technologies have brought to the world. It has fundamentally changed the way people communicate with each other.

I agree on this part. In comparison to Ma'am Leslie's generation, people now are more impatient and have a greater tendency to submit to instant gratification.

Guns dont kill people, people kill people. And just like that I cannot fully blame the new technologies for the detachment of the feelings from people. It is not the technologies that are the problem, it's just that people are using it wrong...do we better ourselves and learn new and interesting things or do we just waste our time scrolling?

These first paragraph struck a chord in me. I recently just reflected on a report a teacher of mine made me read, which was about the role of technology in education and how there is such a thing as passive use of technology and sadly that's the way how most people (even kids) use it nowadays.

I have known a looot of people here who take Facebook as the Gospel Truth and can't tell which news and links are fake, propaganda or coming from a verified source.

The papers that life itself revolves around. If you think deeper about it you might come to the same conclusion as me - our entire lives have turned to making a living

And it's true. I agree that it does seem that way that our entire lives right now have been spent making money. In a developing country like the Philippines, most especially, and I can't fully blame people here why we choose to prioritize money over anything else the way we do. (We because my parents used to be dirt poor and grew up barely making ends meet and it was through their efforts my family got lifted out of poverty)

Poverty is pretty rampant here and most are considered "isang tayhop lang" (only needing one blow)-- a figure of speech referring to their financial vulnerability needing only one blow to send them to the streets.

I even have had students recently who couldn't catch up with the rest of the class because they were the sole breadwinners for their family/siblings and if they have to choose, they'd prioritize bringing food to the table over catching up with their lessons.

do you thing we should spend our time wondering what has caused all this, or it is better for us to spend our time searching for an answer to the problem? And another one - can we really find out a solution to a certain problem if we dont know the cause of it in the first place?

I personally think that in order to solve a problem, a fundamental part of solving and searching for an answer to the problem, is to understand what caused it.

Root-cause analysis or RCA (sorry I'm an engineering major, forgive me for nerding out) come in pretty handy not only in solving technical or engineering problems but also everyday life day to day problems, and it all starts by determining the root cause. I personally love to approach life problems like these by different tools (e.g. Ichikawa, 5 Why's, the Pareto principle etc.). The only way in which these won't work is when our emotions and lack of vitality get in the way.