Nowadays, we have a plethora of time-killing applications accessible from any point of time from our cell phones. From time to time we tend to isolate one and make it our focal point and epicenter of life. Flappy Bird, the most recent of these centermost apps, is a game that has caused a lot more pain than pleasure, yet the populations love it unconditionally, even more so now that it has been removed from the index of games available for download.

Games like Flappy Bird induce an addiction to laziness and uselessness, when people have willingly spent several hours at a time trying to best their highest score. What a lot of people seem to also fail to realize is how irrelevant it really is in the context of the modern day world.

When surveyed, a mass of people will often respond with what they want others to believe, but with not what is necessarily true. For example, when several students were asked whether they’d solve social issues, such as helping the old and sickly, or lay in bed and play a free game provided by their iTunes application store, which is never farther than arms reach from the palm of their hand, people would usually respond with “helping the senior citizens”. The question was answered before a student could give a response, and the question is deemed rhetorical, in the sense that if you claim to prefer to help society, then why is it that you spend 7 precious hours of time tapping and shouting at your $700 cellular device.

Society as we know it has crumbled to revolve around which new app will strike most popularity and allow elitists such as ourselves to show off how many points we can get in Doodle Jump.

Life has come to mean a lot less nowadays than it had meant to our grandparents, who’s decisions and actions affected their aspects of life, but today we don’t worry about the next stock market crash or how many children are massacred each day in Syria.

We are literally amusing ourselves to death.