People are getting stupid en masse

Published 07.01.2024 | By Йосиф

People are getting stupid en masse

What happens to our thinking? How to regain your ability to think effectively? Why should you read books?

Excerpt from the book “The Fourth World War”)

When the authoritative St. Petersburg psychologist Lyudmila Apollonovna Yasyukova publicly announced that the gap between the smart and the stupid (and definitely not in favor of the smart ones) was rapidly increasing – that, of course, was a sealed secret! – the public reaction turned out to be, to put it mildly, ambiguous. Like, who gave you the right to judge this?! And making us look like fools?! And in general, what is the mind?..

For some reason, the respectable public easily detects the shadow of fascist eugenics in scientific facts that deprive them of restful sleep. But this is not eugenics, and there is certainly not even a hint of fascism, but idiocy has indeed become a new reality, and it is doubly stupid to turn a blind eye to it.

This process of mass stupidity is based on the same digital dependence, on the one hand, and the specifics of the work of our brain in a hyperinformation environment.

This peculiarity lies in the fact that precisely because of these functional systems of the brain, which immerse us, so to speak, in different modes of functioning, we cannot simultaneously consume information and think.

Simply put, we either consume content or we think. Since now we all, to one degree or another, do not get off the information needle, the areas of the brain responsible for thinking are not trained, and perhaps even atrophy.

Well, at least they are definitely covered with some kind of neurophysiological dust and cobwebs. It is no coincidence that studies of older people show that people who read are half as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as those who watch television.

Ask, what is the difference: there is information in a book and on TV. Yes, only TV grabs your attention and holds it, but a book does not, so up to 40 percent of your reading time is spent on mental activity, when you are so immersed in thought that you can even lose the thread of the story.

But we rarely read books now; we hang around on Facebook and Instagram more and more. Which, in the literal sense of the word, leads to the fact that we lose the skill of constructing complex intellectual objects – we think more and more superficially, automatically, and do not delve into the essence of the matter.

It is extremely difficult to notice this flattening of one’s own thinking. As I have said many times: even if we get Alzheimer’s, we will complain about anything, but not about our own stupidity.

I have already spoken in some detail about this research, conducted by Olga Litvinenko under the guidance of Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences Anatoly Nikolaevich Anokhin, in the book “Chambers of the Mind”. So now I will try to present only the essence of the issue in general terms.

I believe you have all heard the concept of “pathomorphosis”. It sounds, of course, extremely ominous, but in fact everything is extremely simple and not at all scary: the clinical picture of diseases can change over time.

Old psychiatrists will tell you that the schizophrenic of today is not the same – kind of dull, inarticulate, without clear symptoms. Boring, in a word.

Previously, it was another thing – there were patients, which is necessary! If, for example, there is paranoia, then it is vigorous – the special services are pursuing, the Martians have moved into the bodies of people and are performing monstrous experiments on them, top-secret information about an anti-government conspiracy is being transmitted through a news announcer, a special sensor is installed in the brain to communicate with God, etc., and so on. etc.

In general, they used to go crazy with a metallic, so to speak, ringing. Now what? One continuous grayness. What is the reason for this pathomorphosis? Okay, healthy people become stupid, but what happened to madness?

Modern medicines? Let’s say so. But the onset of the disease should still not change! And he is changing. Genetics? But, excuse me, what genetic changes occur in increments of one generation, and with all of humanity at once?

That is, the point is, after all, in the habitat of our brains (including crazy ones) – in the specifics of the information field.

In this study, hundreds of archival medical records of patients suffering from schizophrenia were analyzed. The structure of delirium, the characters, the structures of relationships were revealed – in general, everything was as Comrade Propp bequeathed.

Two groups were key in this study – those patients who were born and formed before the boom of computers and the Internet, as well as those who came into this world already at the end of the 80s. And this is where “two worlds – two systems” really emerged!

The very essence of paranoia lies in its amazing structure. Previously, we even talked about the moment of “crystallization of delirium,” when the patient literally suddenly “everything became clear” – that this was, for example, a conspiracy, or persecution, or some kind of fantastic influence. He “clearly” understood what had happened, why he was being hunted, what he was guilty of, what he was suspected of, etc.

Remember A Beautiful Mind, the brilliant film about the great mathematician John Nash, played by the then inimitable Russell Crowe? Yes, yes, all these scary people in black who work for the CIA, a conspiracy against the United States, secret information in open sources, newspaper clippings hanging on the walls of the garage… This is real, high-quality, so to speak, structural nonsense.

But those patients whose growing up occurred in the era of galloping information growth demonstrate a fundamentally different picture of delirium. Not only do they not really understand what happens to them when a psychotic attack begins, but they are not even very interested in what is happening.

Well, yes, they say, something strange. Well, yes, someone said something to someone, somehow they looked at him incorrectly, suspiciously…

Instead of the “Government”, “KGB”, “Martians” and all sorts of “Dark Forces” – neighbors in the stairwell, salespeople in the store, relatives, fellow students. And they, however, are barely connected with each other, and what they want from the patient and why on earth, in fact, is not at all clear. Porridge-malasha.

In other words, the representatives of “Generation X” have structural delusions, but in the delusional constructions of the “Greeks” there is no structure at all – it has disappeared.

But delirium is simply a mental product, albeit a very specific one. Morphologically and psychophysiologically, the brain is the same in both cases, and in both cases it is affected by the same disease (the genetic nature of this disease has not changed in any way). Why is the very quality of this, as psychiatrists call it, mental products so different?!

The question is not the content of the delirium, but how it is structurally organized. And structurally it is now organized very poorly, but not because of the disease as such, no. We all think like this in this mess of information consumption – unstructured, torn, unsystematic. A schizophrenic is simply not afraid, since he has lost touch with reality, to turn his thinking outside and demonstrate to us this mess that now concerns everyone.

Well, the structure… we have is so-so. And it’s time to admit this.

How does ordinary, normal, so to speak, manifest itself, and not informational mental retardation? A patient with a corresponding diagnosis is intellectually passive, acts impulsively, cannot concentrate attention for a long time, thinks very concretely and utilitarianly, does not like or understand abstract reasoning. Does this remind you of anything?.. The average user of social networks, for example?

There is only one difference between pseudo-moronicity and clinical moronity: a clinical moron cannot be forced under any circumstances to think more complexly – the very state of his “gray cells” does not imply this. Nothing works out in his head, no matter what you do to him.

On the contrary, the “gray matter” of the information pseudo-moron is intact, and, in principle, his brain can be trained. But why?..

And it’s true, why train this substance and train it in difficulty? What’s the point? What is the motivation? Tsimes in what? Will he be respected in some special way for this? Or, on the contrary, will they shame him for being a fool? Or will he not survive without it? No.

Being smart is not fashionable, not cool, and not even cool… And what to do about it?

We have long needed to understand the threat posed by this new hyperinformation environment for our brains. But we did not understand, we were not prepared, and perhaps we were even late.

Author: Andrey Kurpatov

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