Twitter is a virus of the mind | Spectator USA:"Society seems to be growing steadily crazier.
...I recently read James C. Scott’s Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States.
One of the interesting aspects of the earliest agricultural civilizations is how fragile they were.
A bunch of people and their animals would crowd together in a newly formed city.
Diseases that weren’t much of a threat when everybody was out hunting and gathering over large areas would suddenly spread like wildfire and depopulate the town almost overnight.
...He observes that the pioneers who created this ‘historically novel ecology’ could not possibly have known the ‘disease vectors they were inadvertently unleashing’.
Then I ran across this observation on Twitter: ‘The internet is rewiring brains and social relations. Could it be producing a civilizational nervous breakdown?’
And I saw another article noting that depression in teens skyrocketed between 2010 and 2015, as smartphones took over.
It made me wonder if we’re in the same boat as the Neolithic cities, only for what you might call viruses of the mind: toxic ideas and emotions that spread like wildfire.
Social media is addictive by design..."
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