(September 4, 2015 at 4:10 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: "One of the loneliest societies that have ever been". Spot on.
The thing is, by replacing real, face-to-face relationships with superficial interactions on the internet, we're causing real changes to our brains chemically. What's worse is children with developing brains are going to grow up with these superficial interactions, and that is going to mean than their adult brains are going to have developed with lower neurotransmitter levels during the key periods of brain development. That's sure to make a serious difference in the level mental disorders we're going to see when today's children are grown up.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell