🗑️ 🧵 Are our brain evolved enough for constant consumption and stimulation?
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 02:19:38 UTC No. 16190557
>rapid information, popups, notification, trending
>fast internet, faster web/app, faster access to seeing 1000s of naked women in a minute
>feeds impulsivity and reduces attention span
>consume twitter, instagram, netflix, tiktok
>brain constantly gets bombarded with information, most of it is junk
>don't like reading a book? watch lecture. don't like watching a lecture? watch tutorial series don't like tutorial series? watch "learn X in 10 minutes" videos. don't like that also? watch 60 seconds Shorts. don't like that also? see this dumb meme
Evolution happens in 1000s if not 10s of thousands of years. I don't think our brain is evolved to handle this exponential boom in "stimulation". Our brains are evolved to gravitate towards instant gratification and only those with descent prefrontal cortex is even remotely capable of higher order thinking and putting off immediate gratification.
My attention has been deteriorated over the years, and anxiety & impulsivity has been significantly increased. Tech companies are working so hard to take advantage of these maladaptive traits and make money; sometimes even turning our own psychology against us (be it click bait "viral content" taking advantage of negativity bias, internet whores engaging in thirst traps, etc.). How can an individual improve their attention span and get their shit together? Especially if they're predisposed to impulsivity, anxiety, and high neuroticism. One is to just uninstall them and don't use it at all (allowing our brain engage in "active leisure" like they did 50-100 years ago).
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 02:58:41 UTC No. 16190590
you should listen to your suspicions, it's going to take decades before THE SCIENCE catches up with your common sense.
outside of 4chan, I've stayed almost completely off of social media save for a few anon troll accounts, dating back to the myspace days. it helps that I don't have a social life, but with enough paranoia and repression you can do anything you set your mind to.
the most basic thing you should do ASAP is make sure to change all of your accounts so they don't have your real information, and make them as private as is feasible for your usage. and if youre old enough to have kids, dont normalize screen addiction in front of them. consciously put your phone away and avoid looking at it to kill time, especially in places like restaurants and waiting rooms.
it might sound like a lifestyle, but once you develop an intuition for how dangerous a global, publicly accessible surveillance network is, you'll WANT to stay away.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 03:01:11 UTC No. 16190592
>>16190557
>seeing 1000s of naked women in a minute
Yeah, I think we are evolved enough
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 03:07:41 UTC No. 16190596
>>16190590
also: keep notifications off for 90% of apps, but I'm sure you already know that one
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 03:08:53 UTC No. 16190597
>>16190592
Your picrel meme is the representation of the mentally degenerate "coomer" - meaning that being a "coomer" is maladaptive. We aren't evolved to that kind of stimulation. Our ancestors didn't get to see that many naked bodies in the their entire lifes.
Getting exited and sexually aroused from a naked opposite sex is a mechanism to make us reproduce. But porn "abuses" our inherent inborn trait for money and their own benefits. I say this as a hypersexual semi-coomer myself.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 03:14:14 UTC No. 16190601
>>16190590
>>16190596
I understand where you're coming from. But you can have anonymous accounts and still be addicted to these platforms. Most of the terminally online accounts on Twitter are anonymous. Anonymity also feeds into the "online disinhibition effect" where individuals say things that they wouldn't say in real life or if their real name were to be attacked to it (this again tell you that you can be anonymous on social media and still be addicted). I have anon accounts on social media just so I can access posts/tweets if I want to (since they are behind login-wall and must be login to view posts).
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 03:18:21 UTC No. 16190604
>>16190601
right, you should avoid it entirely if you can, but I offered OP solutions he can implement immediately that will help him disengage from the addiction, reining in the worst excesses of it.
Anonymous at Fri, 24 May 2024 06:33:24 UTC No. 16190730
>>16190597
We aren't evolved to move at 200km/h either yet we do it everyday without problems, like hundreds other things that we were not supposed to ever do, gotta go with the times, man.