The computer really changed social life dramatically. I was forming conciousness in 2005/6 before smartphones. My home didn’t have a home computer or anything. People engaged with each other. I spent most of my time outside. Later on in 2010s, I began using the internet. The internet revealed so much insight, made me lose faith in my parents’ religion quicker than perhaps natural. It made me more isolated due to learning more fringe but compelling ideologies and religions like buddhism, libertarianism, veganism, etc. I think the internet isolates ideologically, but the computer screen also isolates by grabbing bodies and sucking the soul out of them. “Digital zombies” is the term I’m thinking of. Every minute or second spent with a screen is NOT spent with a human being in real life, and that’s a big, big problem with the average screen time being 4-8hrs per day.
The computer really changed social life dramatically. I was forming conciousness in 2005/6 before smartphones. My home didn’t have a home computer or anything. People engaged with each other. I spent most of my time outside. Later on in 2010s, I began using the internet. The internet revealed so much insight, made me lose faith in my parents’ religion quicker than perhaps natural. It made me more isolated due to learning more fringe but compelling ideologies and religions like buddhism, libertarianism, veganism, etc. I think the internet isolates ideologically, but the computer screen also isolates by grabbing bodies and sucking the soul out of them. “Digital zombies” is the term I’m thinking of. Every minute or second spent with a screen is NOT spent with a human being in real life, and that’s a big, big problem with the average screen time being 4-8hrs per day.