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Jon (insomnolant@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 08:15:00 JST Jon
Just watched another "zoomer is afraid of non-scary old thing" video.
The Halo ring is a "liminal space" and the Jenkins helmet cam cutscene is "found footage."- DrRyanSkelton likes this.
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Jon (insomnolant@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:11 JST Jon
@Solbera @Owl I think you're correct, and that this is likely the explanation for the "no internal monologue" and "cannot visualize an apple" phenomena we've seen crop up amongst oversocialized tech-addicts. It's also why I do brain games and puzzles to keep my mind active, as well as enjoy hobbies that require visualizing and creativity.
I do think we'll see even worse depths of devolution, though. Kids these days are practically feral children when it comes to missing out on important development milestones for critical interpersonal skills and cognitive self-control capacity.DrRyanSkelton likes this. -
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Solbera ✝️ (solbera@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:12 JST Solbera ✝️
@Insomnolant @Owl I think about phone numbers a lot, I believe it was the canary in the coalmine. I’m calling the concept “weaponized cognitive off-loading”. Using the physical world to off-load information away from the brain is called cognitive offloading.
I used to remember phone numbers, I have a few very important numbers memorized, but due to the emergence of cell phones there is no real reason to commit them to memory. This phenomenon was noted soon after the commercial acceptance of cellphones.
Now taking the phone number concept, what other parts of the psyche can be off-loaded to the internet? I feel like if purposely weaponized, All information storage is at risk, communication skills, even parts of the personality could be off-loaded. People are being encouraged to put themselves online. With enough of a person being digital, the physical form becomes a husk, or an empty-headed NPC, easy to manipulate and weaken.
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:njp: - kill ✕ owl - (owl@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:13 JST :njp: - kill ✕ owl -
@Insomnolant When silence comes, contemplation arrives naturally. What are these zoomers so afraid of thinking or feeling that they require so much stimulation? -
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Jon (insomnolant@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:13 JST Jon
@Owl I don't think they've built the discipline to interact with their own thoughts in a productive manner. It's likely chaos in the unordered mind, and it's much easier to quiet it down with distractions than develop the skill to focus and think meaningfully. -
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:njp: - kill ✕ owl - (owl@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:14 JST :njp: - kill ✕ owl -
@Insomnolant >Just watched another "zoomer is afraid of non-scary old thing" video.
Like niggers, zoomers just seem to be afraid of peace and quiet, or anything that invokes the notions of those concepts. Serenity is terror to zoomers. -
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Jon (insomnolant@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 09:50:14 JST Jon
@Owl Yeah, though what really gets them is being alone. The lack of social context seems to be their biggest fear. They're oversocialized to the point of caricature.
That's why a building after hours or a closed-down business is terrifying to them. No cues to direct their actions, only their own thoughts, which they haven't developed the skill to cultivate in a meaningful manner.