We are in the midst of a cognitive apocalypse. People are getting too stupid to think for themselves, to govern themselves, to do anything for themselves. Overstimulation and over-externalization via digital media is causing brains to atrophy, our memory is getting worse, our attention spans are getting shorter, and our ability to think critically and apply internal reasoning is becoming nonexistent. As a result of this cognitive decline, nations all over the world are regressing into authoritarianism as the global populace becomes weaker and loses their mental defenses, their ability to discern truth from fiction, their ability to think independently or be proactive or participate in complex collective action.
You can see examples of this in everyday life. Doing something as simple as cooking a pot of soup from scratch or replacing spark plugs on your car engine is enough to make the average person look at you like you're some kind of wizard - things that used to be common knowledge are becoming arcane lost arts, people are so helpless now that they don't even try to think about what to do in a crisis, they just immediately defer to search engines or AI chatbots to answer all their questions.
And it's not because of some bullshit explanation like eugenics and birth rates, as described in the film Idiocracy - it's got absolutely nothing to do with genetics, it has to do with overexposure to outside information. It's like in the Jetsons where they are incapable of walking anywhere because they're so accustomed to standing on conveyor belts, only instead of our legs it's our brains that are going soft and losing the ability to perform work under their own power. This is all by design, this is what fascist leaders and advertising executives and other kinds of domineering authority figures want, a population of mindless reactive insects who only know to do what they are told and consume what they are given.
We are living in a new Dark Age.
Good, fuck the 20th century and fuck literature and fuck academia
always been this way (development of bourgeois modernity and socialist labor history may represent a departure but one that has been rendered moot) do you really think history shows otherwise?
Humans aren’t good enough for communism anyway, black bears and porpoises and other Great Ape species like Orangutans and Bonobos will inherit the remnants of human civilization as we go extinct, rightly so
'authoritarianism' is a meaningless liberal buzzword.
>>2714837>>2714840>>2714843Nihilism is just another form of reactionary politics. It's a copout, a way to excuse yourself from actually thinking and using your brain. You're being just as weak and stupid and helpless as your parents watching FOX News.
You are only proving my point by refusing to think critically about this and just reaching for a pre-packaged, dismissive response.
>>2714849I’m not better than them and never have been, nihilism is the truth, every socialist is either naive or a cynic trying to gain power, same as libs and fascists
>>2714824You ain't seen nothing yet, this century can get a whole lot stupider.
>>2714871Good, fuck smart people, smart people are all sociopathic smug pricks
>>2714849>respectfully disagreeeeeeeees>Nihilist! Reactionary!fukken lol
>>2714885I don't care how respectful your disagreement is, I'm still going to viciously lay into you and call you a helpless complaisant retard, welcome to the real world kiddo.
>>2714904There’s nothing you can do, complacency doesn’t make sense as a criticism in that context
>>2714916Of course there are things you can do. You can be proactive and start a dialogue like I did when I created this thread, or you can be reactive like you are being right now with your desperate attempts to derail/shut down the discussion because it triggers you.
>>2714933I don’t want more intelligent people, intelligent people are manipulative, smug, and condescending. People that are smart but without a moral compass are vastly more dangerous than mean dumb dumbs.
>>2714940>I don’t want more intelligent people, intelligent people are manipulative, smug, and condescending.So you want everyone to be as stupid or stupider than you, that's the only way for you to be able to live in the world? Seems kind of selfish and infantile to me.
>People that are smart but without a moral compass are vastly more dangerous than mean dumb dumbs.You're making the assumption that morality and intelligence are two separate things, but what if they are not? What if stupidity and evil are the same thing? What if morality is just another form of logic? Did you ever consider that?
>>2714961Dumb simpletons are the kindest and most empathetic people in my life, every smarty pants has been a smug manipulator
Has it ever occurred to you that the smarty farty pants are the people who designed these systems and got us into this mess in the first place?
>>2714824this is exactly why you should NOW do everything to protect your neurological hardware. in the upcoming years, your concentration ability and attention span will become a rare and valuable ressource! brainrot technologies are getting better with every day and the reason to stay away from this crap is becoming more and more obvious.
read texts on paper! be extremely careful of your conumption of digital media! stay away from total brain rot technologies!
>>2715029this is why digital detox is in our time the most important thing ever. protect your neurological hardware NOW! in the very near future there will be two classes: the brain fried masses with the attention span of a goldfish and the cognitive elites, who can actually read an entire article on paper.
if you have nothing, but only a mildly intact concentration ability, now is the last chance to invest in your cognitive resources.
>>2715053I’m not doing brain exercises when I’m already tired from working, fuck you, fuck college kids, and fuck all the smarty pants who think being smart is an inherent good because it’s not
>>2715069you have a typical classist conservative understanding of intelligence, assuming that all the most intelligent people in the world are in academia or are ceos or political leaders etc. did it ever occur to you that there are a lot of homeless people living on the streets who are highly intelligent?
>>2715076What good is being smart when you’re traumatized and use all that intelligence to manipulate and scam everyone around you to feed a fentanyl addiction?
>>2715078being smart is what separates a live homeless person from a dead homeless person. it's kind of a core requirement for that lifestyle to be smart and resourceful and be able to think outside the box and figure things out for yourself.
>>2715085Luck is far more important than any amount of intelligence in this life and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise
>>2715090luck is only statistical data, it's not an attribute that you have like intelligence is. you can't "have" good luck, your luck is decided after the fact, when tallying up your fortunes versus your misfortunes.
>>2715099That’s my point, none of your own attributes actually matter, your fate is set in stone long before you’re born
>>2715105>your fate is set in stone long before you’re bornyou can't believe in luck and also believe in fate at the same time. the universe is either deterministic or it isn't, you can't have both.
Solution : make a communist AI that tells you the right communist things to do. That way it doesn't matter if you become dumb, just follow the AI and you win.
>>2715153 (me)
Thanks for giving this idea OP. I'll make a separate thread to encourage the tech geniuses in this board to make a communist AI.
>>2715069if you don't want to do "brain excersises", the least thing you can do is to limit your srceen time and stay away from modern algortithm driven brainrot technologies. tiktok was only the beginning. the methods of digital dopamine frying are becoming more extreme with every year. since when did become gooning with multiple screens and over a long time period become so widespread? its a holocaust for your dopamine receptors. recently i read on /g/ how users get lost in AI generated/VR porn. OP is 100% correct with his analysis. it only gets worse at this point… unless you do somethibg to protect yourself.
>>2715221OP here, my suggestion is go commit some kind of petty crime and get arrested and do some time in jail. That's how I got over my agoraphobia and digital media addiction, drying out in a jail cell for a month because of a drug charge from years ago in another state that I never showed up to court for. After that i was pretty much done with video games, with doomscrolling news headlines, watching Youtube, all of that crap, and definitely done with being stuck indoors and wasting the day doing nothing productive. I got into cycling, photography, painting, woodworking, gardening, writing, reading actual books, etc. Losing your freedom kind of forces you to appreciate how much freedom you really do have and not squander it on stupid mindless consumption.
>>2714824What I find interesting is that people hundreds of years ago argued for democracy and self-rule when most people were illiterate peasants. I mean sure at first it was just about property owning males etc. but there was usually a radical democratic tradition like the diggers and peasant republics and stuff like that. So I wonder if they were just super optimistic about that, or peasants were a lot smarter than the stereotype, or maybe life wasn't so complicated back then so it was easier, although farming is pretty hard or maybe we just think that because we've so disconnected from nature I dunno.
>>2715659Yet you post here?
>>2716906I tend to get banned a lot so it evens out.
>>2716807Fascist sentiment is rooted in classism and the idea that the peasant class are too stupid to govern themselves, because why else would they be peasants, surely they would all be billionaires if only they were educated and capable like the billionaire class is. Meanwhile, you look at the actual billionaires running the world and they're the most stupid, myopic, disconnected from reality dipshits you've ever seen.
>>2714824Most people have been purposefully deskilled, this includes you. It produces a sense of helplessness and people who can be easily controlled and replaced on a whim. It’s very much a purposeful process that is being inflicted on people, not some sort of moral or intellectual failure on the part of the masses making less than a billion a year.
>>2716937>Fascist sentiment is rooted in classism and the idea that the peasant class are too stupid to govern themselvesfascism is literally the rule of the peasants though
>too much information makes people stupid
so to make people smarter, reduce their education?
>>2717125ᴉuᴉlossnW defined fascism as the fusion of state and corporate interests, e.g. big tech ceos and neoliberal politicians joining forces to build an totalitarian society. just because fascist regimes often arise from populist movements doesn't mean that fascism == populism, in fact it is quite the opposite and the fascists very quickly abandon their populist facade the moment they secure their power.
>>2716950I think the deskilling wasn't as effective for me as it was for most people because a) I am an autistic/adhd weirdo loner and have a lot of obsessive random interests, and b) I was born into a lower class dysfunctional family and ran away from home at a young age and have lived by my wits for most of my life, as opposed to many of my peers who came from middle class upbringings and had their lives planned out for them from day one and took the traditional path of college, middle-class career, suburban home, marriage, kids, etc.
Necessity is the mother of invention and living in perpetual poverty on the fringes of society kind of forces you to become resourceful and figure out how to do things for yourself. Your car breaks down, you fix it yourself. Your clothes fall apart, you sew them back together. You don't have enough money to pay for all your groceries, you put your thumb over bar codes and fake scan a few things at the self checkout, etc.
>>2714824>As a result of this cognitive decline, nations all over the world are regressing into authoritarianism <muh authoritarianism<da screens are the cause of fascismsimply retarded liberal justification. fascisim didnt wait social media, falling rate of profit, imperialism weakening and neoliberalism logic causing less treat and more worker opposition are the reason the west become more "authoritarian"
>Doing something as simple as cooking a pot of soup from scratch or replacing spark plugs on your car engine is enough to make the average person look at you like you're some kind of wizard people are unfamiliar with things they dont need to do and arent doing, thats just materialism
>>2717655>fascisim didnt wait social media, falling rate of profit, imperialism weakening and neoliberalism logic causing less treat and more worker opposition are the reasonyou might as well just start smearing your feces on your keyboard at this point
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