The Psychological Effects From A Masked Up Society

There is a particular nightmare that is haunting to those people who have them, and depicted in horror movies to elicit horror or dread in similar fashion, a faceless person, one in whom you cannot distinguish any facial features, or any way in which to communicate the way humans do with one another, through face to face contact.

I think this impacts all of us to one degree or another, but how about from the mind of an adolescent in the process of becoming adult? What kind of psychological effects from living in a world of masked up, faceless, and emotionless humans will they encounter going forward in life?

Every single one of us have things from our childhood that have most surely shaped who we’ve become, be it for the good or the bad, and whether that is from the home in which we were raised in, or the community we lived in, or especially the life experiences in school growing up. Whether they were positive or negative experiences, they may or may not have defined us, but they without question shaped us.

And so, given the zeal in which society has applied masks onto children in school, and given the fact of how influential and impressionable children are and how they internalize things much more than adults do, what will the long term effects be from masking up American children in the future? Will we have created a bunch of socially awkward human beings who are even more introverted and handicapped than our own in the future, or something far worse, perhaps a larger number of emotionless Schizoids, or maybe just ones that are subservient to their masters, muzzled up and captive in their own mind?