Most don't listen I suppose, but I have spent a lot of time over the years delving into the affects of our behavior on our experience, as well as how it impacts on culture, community and how they affect us. It is a losing battle for the most part I assume, because lets face it, we are human and we are going to take the easiest and most convenient path available to us - even if it is going to impact us down the road.
For instance, one of the things is the work from home issue that many people don't think is a big deal, but at some point, I quite strongly believe that the majority who do this are going to miss out on opportunities (bot professional and personal) because of it. Down that road, they won't necessarily attribute this to their own behavior and instead, they will do what people do now, feel victimized by the world.
Another one is kids being raised with too many screens, too many tools, too much digital, not enough real world. The excuse is "this is the world today" but the cost is going to be in the development of fundamental mental and emotional skills that will hamper their ability to cope in the world, even though they consider themselves "digital natives" because, life is not experienced digitally, we aren't 1s and 0s, we are humans.
Then there are the other aspects, like woke culture where rather than learning how to emotionally cope with discomfort, the world is being constantly trying to be washed of variation, becoming more of the same. Random is being replaced with reliable, diversity with homogeneity, discomfort with convenience, responsibility with reliance. The culture blames everyone else for any negative experience, however slight, taking no accountability for their own behavior, or their own emotional response.
And, for the last example (there are many), I will touch on AI creations, where people feel that they are being creative by throwing prompts into a machine that spits out a result that is far better than the person could create themselves. The AI design is artful, the outputs, much less so. It isn't the creation of the prompter, it is the creation of the system coder, even though they will likely never see the result.
Just these four things open up a world of confusion and pain for the future, though most people will deny it, because they think they are smarter than the average bear and won't fall into the traps - which goes to show, they have already fallen.
The more "out of convenience" the world becomes, the more reliant and when we are increasingly getting locked into our homes, with a narrower circle of interaction, driven by algorithmic suggestions for what we consume and ultimately, how we behave, we are going to feel the restriction. But, we will avoid dealing with it for as long as possible because we are unskilled, it is uncomfortable to do so, and we don't feel that our experience is our responsibility. So, we will shout and scream into the avoid, begging authorities to do something to make our lives better.
They don't care.
If the "authorities" could automate everything so they didn't have to utilize humans at all, they would. And while this sounds like some utopia depending on who you ask, I see the reality quite different. It isn't going to be some renaissance of human creativity, because humans can't compete.
Just look at the complaints over the years about unrealistic body expectations because of models who may or may not have been photoshopped, or the diversity of the models in runway shows and acknowledge, now people have to compete with AI-generated models, who are going to be able to be anything and everything all the time. In the past people would mention someone as their "perfect person" but now, they are able to create their perfect person - You think you can compete?
We are making ourselves irrelevant, useless, and undesirable to even ourselves.
But as said, I don't think anyone really cares that much about the future - even their own. It is far too much trouble and since everyone else is doing it, might as well sink with the ship. Right?
While I definitely will keep writing about it, I believe that the majority of people are going to head in what I suspect is the wrong direction for some time to come. However, there is opportunity in this, because while they are heading one way, the investors in the future will make moves that the masses won't. They will invest into ownership, being the assets that will appreciate in value, which are those that are going to attract the masses, cost the masses. And, in so doing, they will not only own the assets, but own the direction in which the masses move, effectively owning the masses too.
Fast food makes you fat.
Media makes you stupid.
Automation makes you lazy.
Convenience becomes a prison.
Taraz
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