[no, this is not about the govt. controlling our brains]
i recently read an article from Forbes, which pointed out how only about 10%-15% of our human population is self-aware, and i've been seeing its validity all around me. at my college there are hoards of people chasing influencers who are nothing short of being literal criminals and gang-members, people talking about ass*ulting other people with no remorse [tht too out loud in public], constantly having their eyes on screens for double-digit hours every single day, nobody seems bothered by the immense amounts of AI made content flooding the web, and so much more.
wht i mean to say is tht people dont seem like they are bothered by anything anymore, the world just keeps moving. most people seem like they dont have deeper emotions, everything feels suppressed, nobody is seen as human anymore, most people have lifeless eyes; without the slightest of hint of there being a person behind those very eyes. nothing and no one feels real anymore, brainrot and advertising has flooded most of internet and public spaces filling people's minds with useless information and desires.
due to all of this nobody feels real anymore, everyone is worried about the same kind of unreasonable nonsense, everyone talks the same way, giving me the same information over and over again. being bothered by not being up to date with the crazy thing tht popular youtuber did, or the new argument some other creator had, even scams and scandals have become entertaining for us now.
half of the things i ever see anyone doing is just to prompt other peoples' minds to generate good perceptions about formerself; and everything seems completely detached from emotion or passion.
the crazy part:
this frightens me, because this seems like its some kind of filler personality, tht has naturally occurred within us, being some kind of response/course-of-action our brains have opted for to better fit into society, which is just to go along with wht the crowd says. the problem is tht the brain no longer has to be original once its in a scenario like this, we just have to do wht others are doing, not much real thinking is required for this.
hence becoming the reason for people not being self-aware. originality is lost, we're literally meeting the same person everyday [kinda]. most of the people around you may just be functioning like this, on auto-pilot. im talking 80%-90% of the populations and that's huge.
here's the article btw:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2017/05/10/only-15-of-people-are-self-aware-heres-how-to-change/
Posted by xho6130
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What people fail to realize is how powerful ideas and the truth are. And by sticking to your truth and socializing and spreading certain ideas and truths, you can change the world around you in dramatic ways. I’m not talking “positive thinking” or manifesting etc. I’m talking about taking action. Once one wakes up to this fact they can accomplish great things.
I completely agree and have been having a hard time articulating how to say this. Ty
The percentage of people functioning on autopilot used to be much higher though.
Like, throughout the Middle Ages, ALL of those serfs and peasants and such laboring away day after day unquestioningly following the orders of the religious and royal hierarchies.
And all those people who fought in the World Wars. It wasn’t until Vietnam, really, that large numbers of people started thinking going to war at the behest of the leaders of the State was maybe not such an automatic good idea.
I wonder how many of your college brethren remember the days of the 2008 financial crisis? Do they feel a personal connection to Occupy Wall Street 2011? If that’s all alien/irrelevant to them, then yes social media’s layer of unreality/hyperreality as a refuge from a system’s controlled decline is shifting younger generation to the cousins of China’s Little Pinks.
My theory since 2018 is that 1 in every 33 people is able to actually lead change. Great men and women are only 3.33333% of the population.
It’s too elegant to be true, but man does it seem like that. And even 6+ years ago.
Just wait until you get older and then start to notice new younger versions of the same 30 characters you know like this.
I was teaching survival skills to this guy in the middle of the woods and – God save me – he started talking about politics. Everything he said was like a stream of msnbc headlines mixed with reddit’s front page. I couldn’t believe how unoriginal all of his opinions were and how frightening something like that actually is.
I disagreed with a lot of what he said but I didn’t want to be critical or upset him. All I could do really was listen in awe as a heavily propagandized person unleashed the flood gates on me. I couldn’t help but think, wow, what if everyone is like this? What if I’m like that, and my opposing and extreme views aren’t even original thoughts? Would he think the same of me if I dumped my purse out in front of him like he had done to me?
The whole thing is just a mindfuck to me and obviously I can’t stop thinking about it. I don’t think I’ve felt that disturbed in a long time. I’d like to hope most people don’t operate this way but sadly I think it is likely true. I just hope I’m not like that but I have this nagging voice in my head that has me reevaluating everything.
What’s funny is this: Forbes is acknowledging that most people in the world are NPCs, just as the most “out there” conspiracy theorists” would claim. But because probably almost all the people that read Forbes are NPCs, they don’t even get excited about it because no one told them to get excited about it. Because they’re NPCs, after all, and they need an “authority” to tell them what to get excited about.
It’s all quite fascinating and dismaying to watch.
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