Last year I started watching an independent news outlet located in Great Britain. In one of their shows they had a short segment about an article which I bookmarked and I have just read it and I also watched the embedded video from the psychologist.

Seems the digital age had quite an impact on the human and humanity itself. He states that younger humans(<25, < 35) act like they have emotions, but in fact they do have not. It is just theater, acting with no connection to their self.

Video: Warning Young Folks: Silence When We Are All Gone

The article: https://johnwaters.substack.com/p/no-future-for-youth

Great, let's just exterminate ourselves right now and be done with it because there's obviously no hope at all. The time has come to empty humanitys nuclear stockpiles.

The digital age has certainly made people more anti social on average but this video comes across as some nonsensical hardcore conservative social analysis.

Interesting, thx, confirms me in my negative view of social media.

too long for now saved it for later:P

imho they shouldnt be allowed to use internet under 18 , is it radical , nope , the radical is to let them jump into the stupidity sea

I am not sure it is conservative when you talk about relationships like friendship and also partnerships and that we have evolved to a loner civilization. That we take no longer time to think and form ourselves, but let ourselves be formed by action. We are in the the end biological creatures with inherent needs and wants. Quite radical, but might actually be a solution.

That is how it comes across, he dramatizing some facts in a very doomsday kind of way especially in how it's been made to videogame in the past.

Living in a digital age has it's downsides but there's plenty of people who take responsibility and don't live in a cave all day, it sounds like he adresses the extremes to everyone in this age bracket and some statitics he speaks of feels incredibly skewed so would like to see a lot more of that from several countries and from different peoples research.

i remember there was a time where "experts" said watching movies will turn you into a bloody serial killer. and then there was a time where "experts" said video games will turn you into a bloody serial killer. i say f*ck those "experts". there's only one truth, there are too many assh*les among humanity and this didn't change for centuries.

When you put his statements together with the book "The True Believer" from Eric Hoffer, written in the 50s it makes quite some sense why you see that erratic hyper activism today.

As he said, it is not about what you do, but how you do it. Sure there are still people who take responsibility, he is talking about a trend as I understood it.

I read somewhere that the true salvation of mankind will only come once all emotions are removed from them. The thinking was, essentially, that we will either find a way - through utilising our emotional powers of domination and anger being the irreversible dismantlement once the deed is done, to seriously undermine or effectively end the human race. A nuclear armageddon, if you will.
Now the catch is that to avoid this, let's call it inevitability, a removal or severe dampening of our emotional states might be the most effective solution. Ergo, indirect destruction of human as we understand it.

tl,dr we're fucked either way, just go study nihilism or whatever

I haven't read Hoffer, but didn't he say that people who are atomized in modern society, without meaningful real relationships, are prone to joining a totalitarian movement?

Well, I started reading it, found it interesting but also the further I got more and more self-contradictory and questionable, and then I decided to take a gander at what even is this website... and apparently it's also about decrying science replacing religion, and warning us about the conspiracy that convinced everyone there's a pandemic.

So yeah, I think I'm done here.

A trend in which he leans on his slanted views to forward his analysis in the most dramatic way possible almost hinting that it's so severe that it's basically no way out of it which i clearly stated was my issues with it.

He does not provide a solution or what he would do to solve it because that was not his interest, he does not provide enough information, statitics and sources to back up claims of that magnitude even if we know a few of the claims are true just exaggerated.

He is a simply a "fear monger".

Eric Hoffer had several categories in his book for people - the Misfits, the Undesireables, ,the Minorities, the Bored etc. The short answer is yes.

Well, numbers might actually be inflated: [url=https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00265-6/fulltext]The performance of the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test as a tool for detecting SARS-CoV-2 infection in the population[/url]

And as I mentioned in another thread, there are treatments without patent when treated early, but when you say to an ill patient come back when it is serious...well...

But that is off topic.

He basically provides a solution with every sentence...

He provides nonsense, i mean something actually worth listening to not the same talking points that has been regurgitated over and over and fixed nothing.