Recently, there was a very literary Internet criticism on damage - a non-profit psychoanalytic research institute project funded by the American Psychoanalytic foundation. According to author Sam Kriss, " in some ways, the Internet really seems to work like an attached devil... we tend to think of the Internet as a communication network that we use to talk to each other - but in a sense, we don't do anything. On the contrary, we are the people who are commanded."
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This article revisits a 2011 meta-analysis. The analysis found that young people's empathy decreased significantly, and the author directly linked it to the spread of social media. But then Chris pointed out: "we are becoming less and less capable of actual inter subject communication, becoming more unhappy and lonely. Every year, the survey finds that people have fewer and fewer friends; 22% of millennials say they have no friends at all."
"For the first time in history, we can simply have no one else at all. Machines provide everything you need: strangers to deliver food, AI chat robots to provide cognitive behavioral therapy, social media to simulate people you can love and hate, and Demons hidden in microcircuits in groups..."
So, despite the recent book's search for historical antecedents, "I still think there is a serious disconnect between the Internet and what was before us," Chris said. "Although Wikipedia is good, although I can travel through foreign cities on Google maps or read early modern metrical poetry without a library card, I still think the Internet is a poison."