Psychology & Self-Help Forum

I noticed a definite decline in the population, with the physical and psychological aspects both affected. Psychologically, it's a lack of "curiosity" and a passive, sluggish contentment to just exist and, of course, shun imagined dangers (hypochondria is rife). On the large sites like Facebook, those who post comments seldom go beyond a couple of sentences - all of it shallow and mundane. It would be hard to imagine someone taking up T.M., learning piano, a language or something that goes beyond work and shopping.
What on earth has happened to people? It's totally like H.G. Wells Time Machine where the population has no vitality or sense of survival. Physically you also see the same decline - the younger generation skinny, and the bulk of people vastly overweight due to lack of activity.
It seems one top Indian psychologist agrees with me and that the government met to discuss her report. The theory is the internet reduces the evolutionary stimulus to think and solve problems for yourself, as opposed to just using Google for quick and ready answers. So, the brain processes far less and relies on internet use, becoming far less active. The same applies to how cars and buses cause us to walk less, so get fatter and sluggish. I think now, in fact, governments have accepted there's a problem.
Put bluntly, evolution is inescapable. Once we lose essential instincts such as risk and challenge, we will die off.

After a few years facebook social networking, people I recall as active and curious seem to have turned into passive, sluggish vegetables. Getting more than five words out of them is a struggle - where years ago they were full of wit and drive. In terms of physics, parallel, resonant networks affect one another and we should recall the collective brain is a resonant, electro-biological organ and processes alpha and other waves. Did scientists ever consider how global internet could have unpredictable consequences?
For sure, something has gone wrong.

I think Mr Gates has it well in hand.

Gates like most assumed an information network in parallel with the global, collective brain would "double" that potential. Yet, to take a simple comparison: Buses, elevators, cars, electric skooters and remotes have "weakened" people physically. We use our muscles far less. So, the 1950s generation was fitter and stronger. Same with social media.
You don't get any thought-out answers on the Facebook forums. Any idiot can "like" something. Technically it's been called infantalising of the brain where the response to information is at the child instinctive level. To buck the trend wecneed to exercise sensibly and use the grey matter.

Facebook is an object lesson how neurotypicals tend to hold opinions derived from fashionable belief. You can test this by expressing any view that contradicts the comfort zone. For example, if you stated women are worse drivers (just to test how people react). Governments programmed the masses never to challenge equality and the masses adopt all these views as their own.
Even conspiracy is an imposition of ideas. Leaders control the various groups and a whole religion is formed where all have to think the same.
If you research autism, you're supposed to blindly accept the "being on the spectrum" pseudo religion and try to "win friends" by blindly following the pack.
I learned to think for myself. Whatever issue arises, I try to seek out the facts from the best sources. In psychology, that means tried and tested research, Kanner, Bleuler, Asperger, Kretschmer, Jung. The sources they never quote on Facebook. Ultimately you have to form your own view and beware of social programming.

Immigration is another issue. The working classes could have voted against it years ago when William Hague raised the issue. The working classes jeered him as a bigot and stuck to the diversity agenda, churned out by the BBC. Now, they turned to Tommy Robinson because Trump happens to be in fashion. Now it's OK to adopt a different but still media pushed agenda. It's like John Lennon's Nowhere Man song about people not having a point of view. We have had mass immigration because the working classes accepted all the media bias for decades. It's a neurotypical thing to just follow the trend.