0573
Internet Refugee
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2020
- Messages
- 22
- Reaction score
- 28
- Awards
- 6
I have been toying with a theroy for some time, that mass communication is an innately parasitic force weather through psychosomatic or spiritual means preys upon both the individual and the collectives psyche. Through observation of my own and others mental condition I have noticed a trend that follows as such. When viewing the internet as a whole, people tend to traffic similar routes and destinations in a way that parallels the minds behavior. People use the internet to satisfy various desires. Pornography satisfies the individuals lust without the need for true sexual contact. Memes and social media satisfy the desire for platonic communication without the need for true group bonding. In a sense the internet provides the most efficient vehicle of curing loneliness without actually being around people. Its soothes the mind and gives comfort and efficient satisfaction like no other. The internet becomes your Mother, your Lover and closest friend without actually providing intimate touch. In other words its an opiate more potent then heroin. everyone is a slave to something, everyone needs something to keep them going; but where the Wired differs from other drugs is that when people are relaxed they become suggestible and think vertically. When you do other drugs the mind reflects upon previously learned information and thinks up solutions to problems through Creativity. With the web the mind cannot do so as it is connected to the words on the screen; taking the information without filter and wiring it to the subconscious. This quite litterly teaches your brain not to think for itself. When people see something with a substantial level of emotion, they remember it even if they dont consciously consider it. Its like taking upon the negative emotional weight of a million strangers simply by observing. This I believe is the cause of such high rates of depression and loneliness amongust young people; who have been observing extreme levels of emotional weight and meaningless information present on the internet since birth. Its an overload of information not applicable to the conscious mind, so it is stored in the subconscious reflected in unseen trauma and inferiority complexes (Hence the current state of /pol/ and memes). Without carrying the weight of a mind filled with useless information, your mental efficiency returns to the status quo people enjoyed before the turn of the millennia. This is an idea that I have been pondering for quite some time.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?