This Video Seems To Have Been Proven
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:15 pm
This video featured falls in line with how I've felt about social media for ages. If you watch it (only a minute of animation) it should become clear.
I grew up watching Star Trek on the t.v. and in that show the sense was that Spock played chess with the computer and so challenged his intellect. We imagined in the 1970s that computers would bring a scientific future.
What actually has happened is that modern computing stressed the "social" far far above the intellectual so that's why they call it "social media". Most people use it in some social, herd capacity, despite the vast potential for research. The large sites have a whole kind of "patronising"vocabulary. What seems to matter are "friends", "likes", "reputation" - the suggested concept that you should -above all else - concern yourself as to whether you are saying the right thing to "win friends" and "generate likes". Conformism that is.
Everything I've read on psychology, science or philosophy stresses that base instincts and feelings relate more to how children process information. Very young children don't analyse but, later in life, as adults, it's expected the intellect becomes more dominant. Rational adults should know what you "like" isn't the same thing as what relates to reality.
Simple example. I "like" sweets and chocolate but I also know eating a healthy diet requires moderation. In the 1970s, smart people still "liked" to smoke but they quit when it was eventually shown smoking can damage health.
Worryingly, what I see on the large sites such as Fbook comes pretty close to the old Moonies "programming" techniques, where cult initiates were subjected to extreme peer pressure, emotional feedback, childlike stimulae. This created an increase in desire for group inclusion and a loss in independent reasoning - new members were never left alone to think.
Finally - my core study subject - schizophrenia. According to E. Bleuler, autism in schizophrenia is a bit different than, say, Asperger autism or Kanner autism. In schizophrenia, desired reality (what you want to be real) displaces the actual reality your friends see corresponds to you. As a simple example, Bleuler referred to a speaker on a stage who fails to see the audience is bored (it's filtered out if his processing) and imagines the audience is riveted (because desired reality of being a great talker, outweighs the harsher reality). Some schizophrenics lose contact altogether with reality per se and live in a preferred reality. Social media giants unknowingly encourage that process. If your reality doesn't give you "likes" and "friends", the temptation is to adopt the views that are preferred reality.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swXh18CQOes
I grew up watching Star Trek on the t.v. and in that show the sense was that Spock played chess with the computer and so challenged his intellect. We imagined in the 1970s that computers would bring a scientific future.
What actually has happened is that modern computing stressed the "social" far far above the intellectual so that's why they call it "social media". Most people use it in some social, herd capacity, despite the vast potential for research. The large sites have a whole kind of "patronising"vocabulary. What seems to matter are "friends", "likes", "reputation" - the suggested concept that you should -above all else - concern yourself as to whether you are saying the right thing to "win friends" and "generate likes". Conformism that is.
Everything I've read on psychology, science or philosophy stresses that base instincts and feelings relate more to how children process information. Very young children don't analyse but, later in life, as adults, it's expected the intellect becomes more dominant. Rational adults should know what you "like" isn't the same thing as what relates to reality.
Simple example. I "like" sweets and chocolate but I also know eating a healthy diet requires moderation. In the 1970s, smart people still "liked" to smoke but they quit when it was eventually shown smoking can damage health.
Worryingly, what I see on the large sites such as Fbook comes pretty close to the old Moonies "programming" techniques, where cult initiates were subjected to extreme peer pressure, emotional feedback, childlike stimulae. This created an increase in desire for group inclusion and a loss in independent reasoning - new members were never left alone to think.
Finally - my core study subject - schizophrenia. According to E. Bleuler, autism in schizophrenia is a bit different than, say, Asperger autism or Kanner autism. In schizophrenia, desired reality (what you want to be real) displaces the actual reality your friends see corresponds to you. As a simple example, Bleuler referred to a speaker on a stage who fails to see the audience is bored (it's filtered out if his processing) and imagines the audience is riveted (because desired reality of being a great talker, outweighs the harsher reality). Some schizophrenics lose contact altogether with reality per se and live in a preferred reality. Social media giants unknowingly encourage that process. If your reality doesn't give you "likes" and "friends", the temptation is to adopt the views that are preferred reality.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=swXh18CQOes