{"id":890,"date":"2025-10-08T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muncbiz.com\/socialmedia\/?p=890"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:52:53","slug":"how-social-media-slowly-ruins-society-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muncbiz.com\/socialmedia\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"How Social Media Slowly Ruins Society &amp; What You Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TR9reUOzTiQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The war for attention isn\u2019t just about distraction\u2014it\u2019s about control. It\u2019s a battle to influence how you think, what you value, and how you act.<\/p>\n<p>And if we don\u2019t wake up to what\u2019s happening, we risk losing the most important thing we have: our ability to think for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to direct your attention\u2014to consciously choose what you consume and how you engage\u2014is the most powerful skill you possess.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019ve reduced \u201cbrain rot\u201d down to being a social media problem, concluding that we should just reduce our screen time to improve our mental health, then I have bad news for you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve only scratched the surface.<\/p>\n<p>This is the war of our time. And it\u2019s time we fight back.<\/p>\n<p>In this video I discuss discuss the silent epidemic which plagues the modern world: brain rot.<\/p>\n<p>Defined as Oxford\u2019s word of the year in 2024, brain rot is the deterioration of a person\u2019s mental or intellectual state, especially as a result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Sources Mentioned:<br \/>\n Neil Postman &#8220;Amusing Ourselves to Death&#8221; (1985)<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FRabb6_Gr2Y&#038;t=0s <\/p>\n<p>Marshal McLuhan &#8220;The Medium is the Message&#8221; (1964)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Is Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is The Massage (1967)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFwVCHkL-JU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/web.mit.edu\/allanmc\/www\/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf <\/p>\n<p>Aldous Huxley &#8220;Brave New World&#8221; (1932)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brave New World (1956) - Aldous Huxley as Narrator\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q0FDwfNE6YE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy we cant focus\u201d \u200b\u2060@_jared <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n\ud83d\udce9: https:\/\/www.mikeyposada.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>IG\/\/ https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mikey.posada\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>tags: digital age, information age, age of information, digital era, tiktok addiction, age of distraction, attention span declincing tiktok, social media, how tiktok ruins your brain, algorithm, entertainment culture, social commentary, internet analysis, video essay, analysis video, chronically online, terminally online, dopamine detox, philosophy, movie film tv show, tiktok, shanspeare, jordan theresa, cj the x, tiffany ferg, alice cappelle, contrapoints, philosophy tube, madisyn brown, chad chad, sisyphus 55, tara mooknee, brain rot.<\/p>\n<p>#brainrot #philosophy #dopaminedetox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war for attention isn\u2019t just about distraction\u2014it\u2019s about control. 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