Out of the (Search) Box

(It has been a hiatus. Lots of things going on which made me reflect on a number of topics deeply but it is only now I decided to ink it down, that too just one of them)
The tirade for the day is on how we fail to think out of the box on so many occasions. The internet has taken over and we are slaves. Paranoid androids. We hunt for answers online for the simplest of things. Sure it saves time and it also saves you from becoming a tad smarter. Moving on to more complex situations like scientific research, we know the fundamentals but allow search engines to apply them. Any breakthrough that has been made today is also largely derivative if you look into it. Is the creative streak dying? Are we running out of ideas?
This drought stretches out to opinions too which are seemingly increasingly contrived. Would you rather agree with what is being dictated by a third party or form an opinion of your own?The answers are all around us, all you need to do is observe. There is a satisfaction in developing your own opinion about something, in finding an answer by yourself. There are ways to do this. I for one, have given up on mobile internet unless absolutely necessary. It is a small step albeit a significant one in the direction of becoming a regressive nonconformist in today's society.
A lot of us are trapped within a search box. We would find a way out but in all probability it is going to be by looking around in the very same search box instead of the outside. Hello, vicious circle and goodbye, mental faculties. It's time to move out of this, into originality and free thinking. Take the leap into reality and deliberate. (There's a bigger search box here)