These are extremely exciting and optimistic times if you think about it.

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[–]BobQuixote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I learned to live in the pre-Internet world first, and while I agree about the external storage I don't see that it has influenced our opinions or behavior in this way. If anything, the external storage seems to mitigate the problem of the old ideas being lost. But I was never fluent in whatever language of nature you're referring to anyway.

Is your concern about COVID basically the superbug? That an arms race of medicines and diseases will eventually produce a catastrophic disease?

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If i would do it here, i could share a selfie-video from me with you: I was following two beavers swimming upstream while seemingly big bee's were flying around my head. You even can hear their humming in the video. One even crawled down my back down my spine under my shirt, but it didn't sting and i freed it again.

I agree with you that the internet (if used right: so critically and always considering at least two sources in the same concern) mitigates the problem of less long-term memory use in younger people than some older ones, like us, are used to use.

But: It also encourages, using your brain like a big movie screen for bs, which ppl. start to believe more and more, the more they watch, hear or read. Apps like TikTok (or facebook or Google News, e.g. ) feed this demon, because they obviously want to keep you engaged to their content, so they can generate clicks, which generates revenue for them and through metadata accumulation they get better and better into your head (and everyone else's of their deliberate victims, for that matter). It's a devil's circle too easy to fall into, if you can't recognize the problem in this. "Behavioural addiction" will become the new "big" problem of the 21. century, i saw this one, since someone showed it to me four years ago.

The last genetic information i read about COVID-19 was in May: Somebody claimed, the virus already has 31 different strains, so i am starting to believe, the changes in our societies corona forced will not be over or turned back that soon.

This one i regard like : Finally, yeah... :)

Regarding your superbug hypothesis: I pray, that Murphie's law isn't applicable on COVID-19 AND nobody tries to weaponize it.

This could be our doom, because it is like summoning the third horsemen on our own.

[–]BobQuixote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, social media is a problem that past centuries have not equipped us to handle very well. My classical liberal instincts seem to result in concentrated bits of society repelling each other. I don't know whether society will be able to continue operating while also tolerating platforms like Facebook or even like this one. At the very least it seems to sadly require censorship; I hope we develop a democratic model that manages to exclude the insanity while not allowing the power-hungry to dominate the conversation.

I can imagine behaving in a similar way regarding the bees, but probably not for the same reason. I know not to piss them off or even move too much lest I get hurt. And I wouldn't be following beavers. :-)

I feel like we lost some of the threads of this conversation, but I don't know how to retrieve them.