re: Has technology made us dumber, social media made us less social?

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Must be what SFP believes.

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what % of violent crime is perpetrated by educated, intelligent people of non-trash culture? like a tenth of a percent?

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Add several decades of media brainwashing to that.

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that doesn't explain the sharp decline of the social media age. we would have seen it "decades" ago

Takes a long time for the old, and un-brainwashed to die off.

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the old, and un-brainwashed

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yes the generation that is more insular, that has also been exposed to far fewer other cultures and information during their lives, are the "un-brainwashed" ones

perhaps we should define being "brainwashed". i'd imagine ignorance plays a large role in the process

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All I know is everyday I'm shocked what my country has turned into.

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you mean a less violent society?

with fewer teen pregnancies?

with fewer abortions?

with more educated people?

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perhaps we should define being "brainwashed". i'd imagine ignorance plays a large role in the process

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Again, Like Cowherd, anyone who disagrees just isn't smart.

I'm done with this.

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Again, Like Cowherd, anyone who disagrees just isn't smart.

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i said ignorance, not intelligence

the whole point of brainwashing is that you don't realize everything outside of the bubble of which you're brainwashed

right?

that's ignorance

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You argue that this makes them less intelligent.

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no. i'm arguing that they are just less intelligent. period. this is just a display of that fact

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I would argue that it is just a different intelligence

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. I'm also not going to look at some "flynn effect" that you read about and accepted as truth because it is claimed science.

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thank you for proving my overall point of this thread

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what % of violent crime is perpetrated by educated, intelligent people of non-trash culture? like a tenth of a percent?

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That's not what I said. Nice try, though.

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people get smarter. old people's brains cannot comprehend the development due to their inferior intelligence. they then protect this inability to comprehend with confirmation bias and subjective evaluation of the less-advanced past they observed

see? not a personal attack. all i did was insert you into that truthful paradigm

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I promise you that I am not who you think I am. I am very fashionable in my attire, very open to new things, including social media which I participate in, etc. my issue isn't with change as I get older, just with change that is fake, or not firmly grounded in any good sense human rational.

Take food for example. Technology has brought us to the point where we don't have to cook anymore but put shite in a microwave, or put shite other people made in a factory in a pot, and call it their own creation, or cooking. That's not a net positive to me, in the sense of what it's done to our cooking skill set as a people, or in even tasting better. It's driven by both technology and laziness that the technology temps us to succumb to, and our fast pace lifestyles that drive us all nuts at times, and we aren't necessarily eating better either, also arguably eating better food as a result. What they thought of as normal common knowledge, many today think it's magic tricks, and this in spite of the technology at our finger tips.

It's not as if you can't use that very same technology to find the correct answers to cooking, or resources to find things that build a solid foundation, or the better food choices through media, but google doesn't tell you what's the proper, correct, or even solid answers. It just spits out information relative to what the operator puts in the search engine, and it also doesn't highlight anything more than perhaps the popular opinions of the same people who are not necessarily looking for the correct or best answer as something else relative to their own desires.

This same technology that with a few key strokes has the ability to show you the proper way to can or preserve food for example, does not make people do it, or even know why it's important, or why there's a big difference in the end product you do at your house to what you buy in the store. It just gives you the ability to do so. Meanwhile, go back 50 or 60 years ago, prior to this Information Age, and you would be hard pressed to find someone who didn't know how to can foods, cure meats, make bread, or make things from scratch in understanding the foundation for cooking that made cooking anything they put their hand to more sense, and practiced arts that humanity considered very important in life.


Technology doesn't make people better if they don't choose to better themselves, and it doesn't make hem more social if they choose the screen over the human being in front of them. The tool is there. It's the decisions in using the tool that's the issue.