A survey of Finnish university students found that over half of them felt lonely and it was impacting on their lives.
The respondents said feelings of loneliness impacted managing daily activities (77%), mental health (64%) and fatigue (64%). Those participating in the survey also associated loneliness with concentration problems (52%) and skipping classes (38%).
What is more, "Forty-three percent said they felt that they could not change their situation".
Powerless.
Is that true?
For a long time now, I have been harping on about how the changing culture which young people defend so intensely as progressive, is progressing into isolation, anxiety, depression and loneliness. Yet, many still believe that we are on the right track, that because kids are growing up with technology from a young age, they have been able to evolve beyond the normal constraints and predispositions of human, to be empowered, not minimized.
The numbers tell a different story.
Isn't it funny how we have shifted into a world of data, relying on numbers, but as soon as those numbers don't corroborate our story, we go back to belief?
A recent report out of France which was commissioned to suggest guidelines for screens and social media, suggested things like virtually no screen time for under 6 (including educational content), very restricted for under 13, and a minimum age of 18 for use of mass social media. The study looked at how young brains weren't developing properly, which means there are developmental problems.
Brain damage.
Intellectual disability, social disability, physical disability, and all the other possible forms if disability out there. Yet, this isn't by accident or disease.
It is by design.
This digital world that us being peddled and lapped up, fought for, defended - isn't some natural phenomena, it is a business model. It is a set of products designed to generate profits with increasing efficiency, and there is no interest in promoting wellbeing, because healthy people consume less resources. There is a whole chain of consumptive needs to pay for when ill, and a lot of them are paid for by tax money.
Ever thought about that?
Most countries have social security systems to tend to the needs of the ill, which essentially means that people are forced to pay, they have no choice. A healthy person still pays for being sick, and the corporations can even overcharge for their products, because the government's don't have to worry about costs, as it isn't their money.
People don't seem to realize the scam in play here, as they demand more money from the governments. However, that money comes by taking debt, which is essentially borrowing from the future. What this does is force people to spend money that they don't have yet, while lining the pockets of today with what is effectively a higher value amount, because it is being brought forward from a place where it would have depreciated. And then, we get to pay interest on what was borrowed to cover the inflation, plus add the margin.
Do you see how loneliness fits into this?
The digital for profit model, is about dividing and conquering. And it does it in such an insidious way, because that journey to isolation feels so good, with a million little dopamine kicks, like bread crumbs that don't lead out of the forest, but deep into the witches house.
There have never been so many people on this earth.
There has never been so many ways to isolate on screens.
And there have never been so many lonely people.
Do the math.
Taraz
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