Many resources on the world wide web are creating a “generation of male losers”.
Men are threatened with extinction! Only in April this year, such a conclusion, based on studies of the "male" Y-chromosome, was voiced by scientists from the Australian University of Melbourne. Experts have proved very convincingly: in the process of evolution, this chromosome is so rapidly losing genes that it will soon be left completely without them. That is, it will disappear. And with her, respectively, the stronger sex. But there and then there were opponents who assured that if this trouble comes, then in a hundred thousand years. And by that time, doctors will invent some kind of medicine so that the chromosome does not shrink.
And today a new attack threatens our men. The famous 79-year-old professor and psychologist at Stanford University Philip Zimbardo claims that they will die out from excessive addiction to computer games and online pornography.
To replace the Pepsi generation the digital natives generation has arrived.
“People who regularly play computer video games do much more harm to their bodies than they think,” explains Professor Zimbardo.
According to the scientist, games, as well as an addiction to pornographic resources, which abound in the world wide web, create a "generation of male losers." These passions lead young people to "digital isolation", which makes them unable to function well in the real world and develop healthy relationships with women. Remaining lonely, men die earlier, reports the psychologist mir24.tv.
“Man is a social animal,” reminds Zimbardo, “and is doomed to extinction because he loses this characteristic. In the life of a generation, there is "desynchronization" - in an educational institution, at work, in romantic relationships, as virtual reality causes excitement.
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FROM THE DOSSIER
MINUSES OF THE HI-TECH REVOLUTION
THINKING
Since the Internet reduces the ability to concentrate and contemplate, the brain over time begins to expect the arrival of information in the form in which it is distributed by the Web - in the form of a rapid flow of particles (see "KP" here). Thinking becomes sketchy, reading superficial. And as a result, people turn into "information decoders". And the area of the brain responsible for abstract thinking atrophies.
CONTACTS
The brain loses the basic mechanisms that govern contact with other people. We find it increasingly difficult to read someone else's facial expressions during a conversation or to guess an emotion.
ATTENTION
The hi-tech revolution has plunged us into a state of scattered attention, when you follow everything at once, without focusing on anything.
FRIENDSHIP
When we see our friends online, we feel like we are in close contact with them. At the same time, there is a risk of forgetting what friendship means in the real world. Friendly relations are being supplanted by a surrogate: now loneliness visits us when all gadgets are turned off and we communicate with people one-on-one.
MULTI-TASKING
The Internet teaches multitasking - the ability to process multiple tasks at the same time. You can listen to music and write to a blog, distracted by checking your mail. But research has shown that over-multitasking increases stress and attention deficit, making work less efficient.
MEMORY
The brain has adapted to the capabilities of technology to such an extent that our memory is practically not used. As a result, it becomes superficial and short-lived. A person is more likely to remember not the information itself, but which folder on the computer it is in. The computer and the Internet have become a kind of memory “prosthesis” for humans.
STRESS
Prolonged immersion in the digital world causes particular fatigue. Many admit that after a few hours on the web they start to make mistakes. Before leaving the Web, they felt empty, tired, irritated - in a word, they felt themselves in a “digital fog”. This is a new form of stress that Dr. Small called man-made brain wasting.
OPTIMIST'S OPINION
Doctor of Biological Sciences Yuri Shcherbatykh:
- Our brain is very flexible and quickly adapts to the new reality. In recent years, even sex has become virtual, not to mention companionship. And young people prefer to look for new information not in books, but in Yandex. But the current changes are not bad, they are different than before. The world is changing, and the human brain is trying to find effective ways to adapt to these changes. As for memory, the ability to remember the place where the necessary information is located, and not itself, is a sign that people's memory has not become worse.
It's just that now we are organizing a huge amount of available information differently, changing the way of memorizing. Handhelds and smartphones have deprived us of the need to memorize phones and to-do lists, but it allows us to keep our heads busy with other things. I don’t think that, for example, Facebook or Google makes us stupid. And Twitter, instant messengers and SMS also have a positive side: they accustom us to brevity and clearer expression of thoughts.
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