Gen Z's Unique Oversocialisation
Summary
TLDRCette discussion analyse comment la Génération Z ressent un fossé générationnel avec les Baby Boomers en raison de leur exposition inédite à la technologie et aux médias sociaux. La Génération Z doit relever des défis uniques liés à l'incertitude économique, à l'IA et à une culture du numérique omniprésente qui assombrit et isole. Contrairement aux générations précédentes qui partageaient des événements culturels et historiques communs, la Génération Z est surtout connectée par des médias numériques, ce qui complique le partage intergénérationnel d'expériences et de conseils. Leur auto-perception et leurs interactions sont profondément affectées par ces technologies, les conduisant à une sur-socialisation numérique qui altère leur connexion à leur propre humanité. L'émergence de l'IA et autre technologie pousse encore plus loin cette déconnexion, alors que le monde numérique continue d'évoluer rapidement.
Takeaways
- 🤔 La Génération Z ressent un grand décalage avec les Boomers dû à la technologie.
- 📱 Les médias numériques façonnent leur perception de la réalité.
- 🌐 L'IA cause inquiétudes quant à l'avenir professionnel.
- 📊 Le stress est lié à l'isolement numérique croissant.
- 🎭 Les interactions sont médiées par des écrans, non par la vie.
- 🧠 La technologie embellit l'aliénation de soi.
- 📉 Perte de liens intergénérationnels traditionnels.
- 🔄 Adaptations continuelles aux changements technologiques.
- 🌟 Les intérêts personnalisés sur internet rendent le monde plus fragmenté.
- 🚀 L'évolution rapide de la technologie dépasse l'expérience vécue.
Timeline
- 00:00:00 - 00:05:00
La vidéo mentionne la différence générationnelle significative dans le style de vie entre la génération Z et les baby-boomers. Le narrateur souligne que ses parents n'ont pas vécu des problèmes semblables et ne comprennent pas la pression d’acheter une maison ou de choisir une carrière stable à cause des avancées technologiques rapides et de l’économie incertaine.
- 00:05:00 - 00:10:00
Chaque génération, dit le narrateur, a ses problèmes uniques. La génération silencieuse a connu des événements marquants comme la Grande Dépression, la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et la peur généralisée de la guerre nucléaire. Les baby-boomers ont vu le développement de la culture consumériste et technologique, influencée par des personnalités comme Elvis et les Beatles, et les tensions de la guerre froide.
- 00:10:00 - 00:15:00
Le discours continue avec les générations X et Y. La génération X est la première à adopter les ordinateurs personnels et l’industrie des jeux vidéo. Les milléniaux sont caractérisés par les attaques terroristes et l'émergence de la culture numérique avec internet, changeant leur façon d’interagir et de consommer.
- 00:15:00 - 00:20:00
La vidéo explore comment nos perspectives générationnelles sont influencées par notre contexte historique et technologique, citant comment des analystes ont aidé à populariser les catégories générationnelles modernes. La capacité à comprendre le langage et l'expérience numérique diffère entre les générations, créant un fossé de compréhension profond.
- 00:20:00 - 00:25:00
Le narrateur explique que la génération Z se démarque par son éducation numérique, et comment cela façonne leur langage et leur expérience. Leurs parents n’ont pas de contextes similaires concernant cette immersion dans les médias numériques, ce qui rend difficile pour eux de comprendre la culture et les défis des Z. L'oversocialisation est introduite pour illustrer comment les Z sont saturés par des normes sociales numériques.
- 00:25:00 - 00:30:00
Le concept de 'l’oversocialisation' est utilisé pour décrire comment la génération Z a été influencée par la technologie à un point où cela empêche l’autonomie personnelle. Les médias remplissent presque tous les aspects de la vie, façonnant les perspectives et l’identité des gens de manière sans précédent.
- 00:30:00 - 00:35:00
Le narrateur évoque les répercussions de l’exposition constante aux médias, qui peuvent empêcher un véritable développement personnel et emprisonner les gens dans un cycle de consommation d’informations rapides et souvent insignifiantes. Les interactions se font de plus en plus par écrans, en modifiant les dynamiques sociales traditionnelles.
- 00:35:00 - 00:40:00
L'information est devenue rapide et souvent jetable, se concentrant sur l'immédiateté plutôt que sur la profondeur à long terme. Le contenu semble éphémère, et le flot constant d’informations rend difficile de trouver une valeur durable ou une pertinence à long terme, exacerbant la déconnexion de la réalité tangible.
- 00:40:00 - 00:45:00
Les plateformes comme Twitter et TikTok exacerbent la consommation rapide de l’information grâce à leurs restrictions de caractères ou formats de contenu. Le résultat est une culture numérique qui privilégie l’efficacité à court terme au détriment de la compréhension approfondie ou de la communication durable.
- 00:45:00 - 00:50:00
Le narrateur explique comment les médias sociaux et la surcharge d'informations ont changé la manière dont nous comprenons la réalité, mettant l'accent sur la connaissance immédiate et le sensationnalisme au détriment des interactions et expériences réelles.
- 00:50:00 - 00:55:00
La dépendance à l’égard des médias et des gadgets numériques alimente un phénomène où les souvenirs de l'enfance sont de plus en plus constitués d’expériences virtuelles au lieu de moments réels. La vidéo souligne la solitude accrue de la génération Z, car leur socialisation n'est pas ancrée dans des expériences humaines fondamentales.
- 00:55:00 - 01:00:00
L’introspection numérique face à des choix infinis et des pressions sociétales exacerbe la solitude et le retrait social, entravant la capacité à former des connexions réelles et satisfaisantes. La génération Z est souvent poussée à l'auto-amélioration mais sent toujours un manque de but.
- 01:00:00 - 01:05:00
Alors que les technologies continuent d’évoluer, les conseils et stratégies précédents deviennent rapidement obsolètes. Avec l’essor de l’IA et des réseaux intelligents, les interactions humaines sont médiées par des filtres algorithmiques, compliquant davantage les relations interpersonnelles.
- 01:05:00 - 01:11:06
Le narrateur soupçonne une perte progressive du contact avec la réalité humaine authentique à mesure que la vie devient de plus en plus inondée de remplacements numériques stériles. La capacité d’interagir avec le monde et les autres de manière réelle diminue, renforçant encore le sentiment de distanciation générationnelle.
Mind Map
Frequently Asked Question
Quels sont les principaux défis auxquels la Génération Z est confrontée ?
Ils font face à l'incertitude de trouver un emploi sûr, les défis liés à l'accessibilité économique, et l'influence omniprésente des médias sociaux.
Comment la Génération Z se distingue-t-elle des générations précédentes ?
Elle est la première à être élevée dans un monde très numérique, influencée fortement par les médias sociaux et la technologie, ce qui crée une déconnexion avec les autres générations.
Qu'est-ce que l'assemblage culturel pour les générations précédentes ?
C'était généralement basé sur des expériences partagées comme la musique, les guerres ou les mouvements sociaux, en contraste avec les expériences numériques de la Génération Z.
Quel est l'impact des médias sociaux sur la Génération Z ?
Ils façonnent leur perception de la réalité et influencent la manière dont ils interagissent avec le monde, accentuant l'aliénation et la sur-socialisation.
La technologie a-t-elle toujours une influence positive ?
Non, tandis qu'elle offre de nombreux avantages, elle exacerbe également l'isolement et le stress chez la Génération Z.
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- 00:00:00the generational gap between jenzi and
- 00:00:02Boomers in lifestyle is the largest I
- 00:00:04think to ever happen between Generations
- 00:00:06my parents don't know and have not
- 00:00:07experience most of the issues that I
- 00:00:09face if I describe it to them sure they
- 00:00:11may get the concepts after explaining it
- 00:00:12to them but they won't understand the
- 00:00:14pressure and how it weighs on the mind
- 00:00:16they don't know what it's like working a
- 00:00:18job being self-aware of the fact while
- 00:00:19working that I likely won't be able to
- 00:00:21afford a house till I'm 50 if I'm lucky
- 00:00:23they don't know what it's like to go to
- 00:00:24school wondering whether the industry I
- 00:00:26could potentially go into will get
- 00:00:27replaced by AI or accelerating techn or
- 00:00:30even if my job doesn't get replaced an
- 00:00:32economy where traditional job security
- 00:00:34is almost a myth it's something they
- 00:00:36likely never had to face now every
- 00:00:38generation has problems and issues that
- 00:00:40are unique to them in fact I think the
- 00:00:41way we're really thinking about
- 00:00:42Generations now is what problems they
- 00:00:44had widespread and What technological
- 00:00:45advancements they developed besides
- 00:00:47Aesthetics that's what's really being
- 00:00:49put into the categorizations of how we
- 00:00:50analyze time progressing through
- 00:00:52generations with the historical focus on
- 00:00:54the west the silent generation
- 00:00:55experienced the Great Depression in
- 00:00:57World War II during their formative
- 00:00:58years the use of atomic bombs on
- 00:01:00Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War
- 00:01:01II introduced a pervasive fear of
- 00:01:03nuclear war that deeply influenced the
- 00:01:05silent generation this generation also
- 00:01:07saw the beginnings of the first major
- 00:01:08Milestones of the Civil Rights Movement
- 00:01:10which sought to end racial segregation
- 00:01:12and discrimination in the United States
- 00:01:13the Baby Boomers much fitting to their
- 00:01:15name where the population boom after
- 00:01:17soldiers returned and the war was over
- 00:01:19this was when consumerist culture first
- 00:01:20started really developing with the
- 00:01:22emergence of Technology like transistor
- 00:01:24radios in the vinyl industry booming
- 00:01:26stars like Elvis emerged and from newly
- 00:01:28established television shows like the Ed
- 00:01:30show grew into much more than just
- 00:01:31musical artists they became like
- 00:01:33personalities this was further
- 00:01:35accentuated with bands like the Beatles
- 00:01:37The Rolling Stones and artists like Bob
- 00:01:38Dylan James Brown and Jimmy Hendricks
- 00:01:40the Cold War Began almost immediately
- 00:01:42after World War II ended and evolved
- 00:01:43into the Vietnam War this was a
- 00:01:45prolonged period of geopolitical tension
- 00:01:47that had a significant impact on
- 00:01:48international relations as well as
- 00:01:50Boomer's perspective on the world
- 00:01:52manifesting through the anti-war
- 00:01:53movement and a growing fear of nuclear
- 00:01:55war this period of rivalry between the
- 00:01:57United States and the Soviet Union led
- 00:01:58to the Space Race in rapid developments
- 00:02:00in Aerospace technology and computer
- 00:02:02science fundamentally altering the
- 00:02:04trajectory of technological progress Gen
- 00:02:06X while not the first generation to have
- 00:02:08home computers was the first one to
- 00:02:09begin using them in day-to-day life
- 00:02:11while computers had been developed for
- 00:02:12governments and certain companies since
- 00:02:14the 1950s it was in this era that they
- 00:02:16began being used more personally hence
- 00:02:18the term personal computer becoming a
- 00:02:19part of the Lexicon in this period we
- 00:02:21saw the end of the Cold War developed
- 00:02:23the contraceptive pill there was a birth
- 00:02:24of a new industry as video games began
- 00:02:26and it also led to the birth of CNN in
- 00:02:281980 CNN became the first channel to
- 00:02:30provide 24-hour television news coverage
- 00:02:33originally the public got news from
- 00:02:34newspapers that came once a day then it
- 00:02:36came from television segments after work
- 00:02:38and now or rather then it updated
- 00:02:40constantly close to real time
- 00:02:41Millennials grew up in a time of fear
- 00:02:43and Terror with the obvious being the
- 00:02:45terrorist attacks which began the Afghan
- 00:02:46war this led to massive changes in US
- 00:02:48foreign policy increased security
- 00:02:50measures and a hien awareness of
- 00:02:52terrorism and security issues worldwide
- 00:02:54technologically they became truly the
- 00:02:56first internet natives with the internet
- 00:02:57being an integral part of how they
- 00:02:59interacted and saw the world things
- 00:03:00progressed incredibly quickly such as
- 00:03:02the transition from dialup internet to
- 00:03:04high-speed Broadband connections or the
- 00:03:05widespread use of mobile devices
- 00:03:07constantly Reinventing themselves year
- 00:03:09to year out was the old and in was the
- 00:03:11new with floppy discs and VHS tapes
- 00:03:13being replaced by CD ROMs and DVDs MP3
- 00:03:16players in the iPod revolutionized how
- 00:03:17people listen to music portable music
- 00:03:19wasn't new but Walkman only contained a
- 00:03:21very limited amount compared to the well
- 00:03:23a thousand songs online shopping
- 00:03:25platforms like Amazon and eBay gained
- 00:03:27prominence changing the way people
- 00:03:28purchase Goods customers could browse
- 00:03:30and purchase products from the comfort
- 00:03:31of their homes eliminating the need to
- 00:03:33visit physical stores if news became
- 00:03:35something 24/7 in the ' 80s a post 911
- 00:03:37World saw an increased emphasis on
- 00:03:39breaking news news stations learned that
- 00:03:41the more terror based its coverage was
- 00:03:42the more viewers it got CNN and the
- 00:03:44newly established Fox News adapted
- 00:03:46quickly to this with increased
- 00:03:47sensationalism and fear-based Reporting
- 00:03:49there was also a shift into leaning more
- 00:03:51into foreign reporting usually into
- 00:03:52conflict zones and areas of geopolitical
- 00:03:54importance as they are the first digital
- 00:03:56generation they are the most analyzed
- 00:03:58generation as we have so much data on
- 00:04:00who they are as people their beliefs
- 00:04:02their habits their Hobbies their
- 00:04:03favorite hobbits so much unnecessary
- 00:04:05data seemingly without use except it
- 00:04:08wasn't unnecessary or without use in
- 00:04:111979 the historian Robert wall analyzed
- 00:04:13how we came to think of generations he
- 00:04:15States prior to the 19th century the
- 00:04:17concept of generations primarily
- 00:04:19revolved around biological connections
- 00:04:20within families typically focusing on
- 00:04:22the relationships among male family
- 00:04:24members such as grandfathers fathers
- 00:04:26sons and Grandsons in the second half of
- 00:04:28the 19th century the term was was
- 00:04:29employed increasingly and used
- 00:04:31especially to evoke the dichotomy
- 00:04:32between the older generation and the
- 00:04:34youth people recognize that individuals
- 00:04:36born around the same time might have
- 00:04:38shared cultural or historical
- 00:04:39experiences but the term generation gap
- 00:04:41only began to emerge in popular
- 00:04:43discourse during the early 20th century
- 00:04:45this concept referred to the perceived
- 00:04:46cultural and societal differences
- 00:04:48between older and younger Generations
- 00:04:50particularly during periods of Rapid
- 00:04:51social change in the 1960s and70s the
- 00:04:54concept of generational analysis became
- 00:04:56much more formalized sociologists and
- 00:04:58researchers began to stud stud and
- 00:04:59categorized different Generations based
- 00:05:01on birth years and shared experiences
- 00:05:03authors like KL Manheim William Strauss
- 00:05:05and Neil how played significant roles in
- 00:05:07shaping generational theory in
- 00:05:09particular their book Generations the
- 00:05:11history of America's future 1584 to 2069
- 00:05:14released in 1992 helped popularize the
- 00:05:17idea of generational cohorts in the
- 00:05:18United States they were the writers who
- 00:05:20introduced the concept of baby boomers
- 00:05:22Generation X and subsequent Generations
- 00:05:24each defined by its unique historical
- 00:05:26context if you'll forgive my Abridged
- 00:05:28poor summarization of History it was
- 00:05:30necessary to lead into my actual
- 00:05:31analysis in the late 20th century an
- 00:05:33interesting new development started
- 00:05:35growing in the business/ tech world all
- 00:05:37of this supposedly junk data they could
- 00:05:39see from users of the internet could be
- 00:05:40used as an indicator of what customers
- 00:05:42would want to purchase advertisements
- 00:05:44and marketing strategies then adapted
- 00:05:45and learned from an individual search
- 00:05:47history in cookies to cater their
- 00:05:49interests and wants a sort of
- 00:05:50personalization of advertising if you
- 00:05:52will researchers and marketers began
- 00:05:54using generational labels to understand
- 00:05:56and Target different demographic groups
- 00:05:58generational analysis then began being
- 00:06:00widely used in fields such as marketing
- 00:06:02sociology and business to understand the
- 00:06:03behavior attitudes and experiences of
- 00:06:05different age groups this with the birth
- 00:06:07of social media had an interesting
- 00:06:08domino effect on politics business
- 00:06:14and climate change political
- 00:06:16polarization gun violence social media
- 00:06:18pressure and financial instability are
- 00:06:21just some of the many stress factors
- 00:06:22that we all deal with on a day-to-day
- 00:06:24basis but what happens if that reality
- 00:06:26is all you know before I talk about the
- 00:06:29traits of gen Z I want to discuss why
- 00:06:30they are the most distinct generation in
- 00:06:32generalized experience and language the
- 00:06:34interesting part of their development
- 00:06:35that sets them apart from their
- 00:06:37ancestors is their digital upbringing
- 00:06:39what's interesting about internet
- 00:06:40language that I don't see many people
- 00:06:41talk about is that it usually requires
- 00:06:43previous knowledge in order to
- 00:06:44understand it it's hard to put into
- 00:06:46words but for a comparison and to put it
- 00:06:47simply most art created in human history
- 00:06:50as vague specific or abstract as it may
- 00:06:52be doesn't need previous context in
- 00:06:53order to relate to it because it was
- 00:06:55Universal in tone themes or messaging
- 00:06:57the context around the art or piece
- 00:06:58could be completely alien from my own
- 00:07:00life experience but the emotional or
- 00:07:02thematic elements are universally human
- 00:07:04it's the empathy of shared experience
- 00:07:06for example the events of Casablanca are
- 00:07:08quite foreign to me it's a depiction of
- 00:07:10a previous era of history with events
- 00:07:11I've only ever read about and it's
- 00:07:12imitating a strangely different world in
- 00:07:14America that I'll never experience these
- 00:07:16circumstances are completely different
- 00:07:18to me and the characters face a threat I
- 00:07:19have never and hopefully will never have
- 00:07:21to worry about and yet despite the
- 00:07:23differences in political context and
- 00:07:24historical setting the Timeless themes
- 00:07:26of Love moral dilemmas and personal
- 00:07:28choices still resonate with with me on a
- 00:07:30universal level I have never been in war
- 00:07:32but the disorienting shell shock of
- 00:07:33seeing the depiction of storming Omaha
- 00:07:35Beach and Saving Private Ryan makes me
- 00:07:37understand on a much more visceral level
- 00:07:39what the soldiers went through despite
- 00:07:40never being there I could put myself in
- 00:07:42their shoes and understand what it was
- 00:07:43like I don't have anything in my life to
- 00:07:45compare what that must have felt like
- 00:07:46besides maybe hyperbolic comparisons but
- 00:07:48I can in a very unique way experience
- 00:07:50what it perhaps felt like art could be
- 00:07:52as grandiose as the world ending or as
- 00:07:54small and intimate as two people trying
- 00:07:55to connect there's always an element of
- 00:07:57experiencing a sliver of what it's like
- 00:07:59to live live or be human with that said
- 00:08:01there are certain things in life that
- 00:08:03are so specific that only a small
- 00:08:04subsection of people could really relate
- 00:08:06to it due to things such as cultural
- 00:08:08differences Niche Hobbies obscure
- 00:08:10history or personal experience things
- 00:08:12that require previous context to fully
- 00:08:13appreciate there's also the factor of
- 00:08:15time and how that changes people's
- 00:08:16perception and also if they can even
- 00:08:18understand what's being referenced or
- 00:08:19said think of how many stand-up
- 00:08:21comedians have jokes that absolutely
- 00:08:22kill commenting on some cultural moment
- 00:08:24that happened that year month or week as
- 00:08:26your slogan says Fox News we read the
- 00:08:28chain mailes your grand gets in her
- 00:08:30inbox out loud like they were true while
- 00:08:32that joke May flaw now as time goes on
- 00:08:33and the context around the joke becomes
- 00:08:35less and less relevant or well known it
- 00:08:36will leave people more cult as they
- 00:08:38won't get the reference despite the
- 00:08:39content of the joke not actually
- 00:08:40changing I'm not saying that this is
- 00:08:42necessarily a bad thing either not
- 00:08:44everything has to be timeless or relate
- 00:08:45to everyone some of my favorite stories
- 00:08:47are so personal that they can relate to
- 00:08:48only a small group of people in a very
- 00:08:50particular age or time frame language is
- 00:08:53another barrier between understanding
- 00:08:54that causes a disconnect between
- 00:08:56experience if you don't understand a
- 00:08:57language you at a very fundamental level
- 00:08:59can't understand what is trying to be
- 00:09:00expressed generationally there have been
- 00:09:02many language barriers it seems to be
- 00:09:04one of the reoccurring defining traits
- 00:09:05of the Contemporary younger Generations
- 00:09:07they have some sort of lingo that older
- 00:09:08Generations can't understand that
- 00:09:10eventually either die out with the new
- 00:09:11generation or become so widely known and
- 00:09:13accepted as they get older that they get
- 00:09:15added to the general lexicon
- 00:09:17interestingly previous to genzi that
- 00:09:19barrier of lingo and language between
- 00:09:20Generations was usually just a
- 00:09:22replacement word for something
- 00:09:23previously known or felt for example in
- 00:09:25the mid 20th century cool was slang used
- 00:09:27by younger generations to describe
- 00:09:29something something fashionable
- 00:09:30attractive or impressive older
- 00:09:31Generations might not have immediately
- 00:09:33understood its meaning or use but before
- 00:09:35cool there were words like swell and
- 00:09:37neat so they drew from that knowledge to
- 00:09:39understand the meaning it's the same
- 00:09:40meaning essentially albeit with a few
- 00:09:41differences but it holds the general
- 00:09:43same sense of describing something as
- 00:09:45fashionable and well-liked over time
- 00:09:47cool became widely accepted and now is a
- 00:09:49standard part of the English language
- 00:09:51which is kind of cool the reason I'm
- 00:09:52mentioning this and have gone on this
- 00:09:54long diet tribe is because although the
- 00:09:56older generation did not grow up with
- 00:09:57the term CO as a descriptor they grew up
- 00:09:59with words similar to it and quickly
- 00:10:01subconsciously understood what someone
- 00:10:02is saying when they hear the word cool
- 00:10:05there is like art a shared understanding
- 00:10:07of experience and subconsciously sharing
- 00:10:09the same ideas when presented and
- 00:10:11presenting a description that is not
- 00:10:13there for genzi in older Generations
- 00:10:15because technology advanced way too
- 00:10:16quickly for generations to understand
- 00:10:18each other the generational Gap from
- 00:10:19this simple barrier extends far more
- 00:10:21than any other example in history this
- 00:10:23is because the shared experience of genz
- 00:10:25isn't coming from life it's coming from
- 00:10:27media that is the shared experience
- 00:10:29most genz lingo isn't actually
- 00:10:31correlated to life or living it's the
- 00:10:32reflection of life and living through
- 00:10:34media my parents in older Generations
- 00:10:36have no experience that really
- 00:10:37correlates to growing up with this so
- 00:10:39the lingo we use the humor we have the
- 00:10:41things we talk about and the things we
- 00:10:42worry about seem alien in a way not
- 00:10:44present in other Generations in a
- 00:10:46relatively small time frame technology
- 00:10:48became the primary way people meet each
- 00:10:50other talk to each other perceive each
- 00:10:51other understand each other and perceive
- 00:10:53the self this has created a unique
- 00:10:55divide and Gap in the usual advisory
- 00:10:56lessons and experience that typically
- 00:10:58occurs between parents and children
- 00:11:00essentially you need to be socialized by
- 00:11:02the internet to understand the language
- 00:11:04of the internet more on that later as
- 00:11:06mentioned previously no matter your life
- 00:11:07experience there are some basic tenants
- 00:11:09that apply to all of us no matter how
- 00:11:10hypers specific your beliefs or
- 00:11:12situation the internet however is hypers
- 00:11:14specific and individualized almost all
- 00:11:16of it is created for you while most
- 00:11:18people do use the same apps and websites
- 00:11:20what you see it can be drastically
- 00:11:21different from another person depending
- 00:11:22on your viewing habits political
- 00:11:24opinions likes and followed people there
- 00:11:25is so many different corners of the
- 00:11:27internet with so many different things
- 00:11:28to see watching engage with they trying
- 00:11:30to talk about it generally is hard
- 00:11:32because everyone has a uniquely tailored
- 00:11:33set of interests preferences and
- 00:11:35communities they engage with and
- 00:11:36experience that would delegitimize a
- 00:11:38generalized explanation of what it is
- 00:11:40like this created a weird reality for
- 00:11:42jenzi to grow up in where their parents
- 00:11:44could not relate to them or their
- 00:11:45generational struggles as they have no
- 00:11:47experience that could compare to it as
- 00:11:49the usual generational Gap could jenzi
- 00:11:51typically understands technology and
- 00:11:52apps better than their parents do so
- 00:11:54when talking to them about it it's a
- 00:11:56clear disconnect even if the parental
- 00:11:58Guardians were internet savy their
- 00:12:00understanding of what the internet is
- 00:12:01would be whatever the algorithm has
- 00:12:03decided them to see the generation after
- 00:12:05gen Alpha and maybe gen Alpha themselves
- 00:12:07won't have this issue because by then
- 00:12:08their parents will know of the
- 00:12:09ramifications of social media and
- 00:12:11because they too grew up with it can
- 00:12:13give advice for how to exist within this
- 00:12:14relatively new form of conversing and
- 00:12:16viewing and bond with them genz did not
- 00:12:18have that luxury we were and still are
- 00:12:21patient zero for what is now our
- 00:12:22technological media obsessed virtual
- 00:12:24culture it's a very unique situation we
- 00:12:26found ourselves in one that ties to
- 00:12:30the word oversocialization derives from
- 00:12:31the word socialization socialization is
- 00:12:34how we are trained to think and act as a
- 00:12:35certain person or group does it's
- 00:12:37basically the Learned process of how to
- 00:12:38behave socialization comes from many
- 00:12:40things family mass media school but also
- 00:12:42your friends peers co-workers and
- 00:12:44culture because we never stop learning
- 00:12:45and our behavior is collectively always
- 00:12:47changing it's more of a process rather
- 00:12:49than a status or achieved indefinite
- 00:12:51State overs socialization on the other
- 00:12:53hand is a term used in sociology and
- 00:12:55psychology to describe a situation where
- 00:12:57an individual has been so excessively
- 00:12:58influenced by social norms values or
- 00:13:00cultural expectations to the point where
- 00:13:02it hinders their ability to think or act
- 00:13:04independently this can result in a lack
- 00:13:06of personal autonomy and creativity as
- 00:13:08the individual's thoughts and actions
- 00:13:09are primarily Guided by external
- 00:13:11influences rather than their own
- 00:13:12individuality thinking or life
- 00:13:14experience while the term
- 00:13:15oversocialization itself was made in
- 00:13:17reference by many scholars most notably
- 00:13:19Eric from it was mainly popularized by
- 00:13:21this guy if you've read as Manifesto you
- 00:13:23know the term was used by him as a
- 00:13:24criticism of leftist psychology how it
- 00:13:26supposedly alienates people from the
- 00:13:28inner nature and makes people frustrated
- 00:13:30about social issues without a method of
- 00:13:31release I'll put the criticisms up on
- 00:13:33screen come to your own conclusions
- 00:13:35however kazinski notes that while he
- 00:13:37sees this as a problem mainly with
- 00:13:38leftists and also the futility of
- 00:13:39conservatives he States it really has to
- 00:13:41do with technology itself and are still
- 00:13:43very new but rapidly advancing
- 00:13:44industrial society I'd like to borrow
- 00:13:46this term not to analyze or criticize
- 00:13:48political psychology as kazinski but
- 00:13:50rather use the term as a descriptor of
- 00:13:51what happened to jenz with social median
- 00:13:53technology why it happened and where
- 00:13:55it's going think of how much information
- 00:13:57you've consumed on a yearly basis how
- 00:14:00much do you actually remember every bit
- 00:14:02of celebrity gossip the news the
- 00:14:03comments the Articles the videos most of
- 00:14:05it we process for like a minute and then
- 00:14:07it goes from our memory even viral
- 00:14:08Things become vague things you remember
- 00:14:10happening sometimes even information
- 00:14:12that may be interesting to us or
- 00:14:13seemingly valuable like a deep dive
- 00:14:15documentary or something factual can
- 00:14:17almost be like intellectual popcorn
- 00:14:19something that while you do digest and
- 00:14:21eat it isn't a main course meal and is
- 00:14:22used to satiate an appetite of
- 00:14:24Engagement under your lure of
- 00:14:25information it feels pragmatic to learn
- 00:14:28but most of the information in it you
- 00:14:29will never use in day-to-day knowledge
- 00:14:31and will forget about just as soon as
- 00:14:32you've watched it essentially it's like
- 00:14:33year 12 maths do we really need to know
- 00:14:35about some serial killer backstory or
- 00:14:37biblically accurate Angels or things you
- 00:14:39didn't know about sharks it's one of
- 00:14:40those pieces of information that you may
- 00:14:42mention to appear more knowledgeable
- 00:14:43than you are at parties but that's about
- 00:14:45it the algorithm is a constant feedback
- 00:14:47loop of mostly useless information that
- 00:14:49will keep you engaged and is designed to
- 00:14:51keep you engaged things that are
- 00:14:52interesting that are engaging But
- 00:14:53ultimately don't amount to much thought
- 00:14:55I'm right now talking about information
- 00:14:57but when we talk about media it takes on
- 00:14:59on an additional role that of shaping
- 00:15:00perspective the content we create and
- 00:15:02consume isn't merely just a transmission
- 00:15:04of information it becomes a lens through
- 00:15:06which we view the world's issues and
- 00:15:07people often tinted by whoever is making
- 00:15:08it or in the case of the wider internet
- 00:15:10the collective consciousness of the
- 00:15:11digital Community it's in okay this
- 00:15:14going to sound reductive and silly but
- 00:15:16it is social media we are socializing
- 00:15:19through media the language is a mesh of
- 00:15:20pre-established things we've seen and
- 00:15:22talked about it's kind of like a
- 00:15:23constant advertising stream of
- 00:15:24self-aware references you could say
- 00:15:26that's most of language already but
- 00:15:27language is a descriptive tool media is
- 00:15:30perspective the problem that arises when
- 00:15:32you socialize around media to the extent
- 00:15:34gen Z has is you become socialized
- 00:15:36through media rather than life this deep
- 00:15:39connection to digital experiences has
- 00:15:40led to what I term Jen's unique
- 00:15:42oversocialization this and something
- 00:15:44else but I'll get to that later in
- 00:15:45traditional socialization individuals
- 00:15:47learn from a variety of experiences
- 00:15:49including face-to-face interactions
- 00:15:51cultural events and personal challenges
- 00:15:53however for genz the majority of their
- 00:15:54socialization occurs through screens the
- 00:15:56digital realm becomes a substitute for
- 00:15:57real world experiences shaping their
- 00:15:59perspectives values and even
- 00:16:00self-identity now it's important to note
- 00:16:02that obviously people are still having
- 00:16:03Face to-face interactions they're still
- 00:16:05having cultural events and I'm sure
- 00:16:06everyone is still having their own
- 00:16:07personal challenges but they often bleed
- 00:16:08together with technology and media while
- 00:16:10having them at events like concerts
- 00:16:12music festivals sporting events we're
- 00:16:13constantly filming we immerse ourselves
- 00:16:15in what's happening yes but we
- 00:16:16simultaneously view the performance
- 00:16:18through the lens of our devices
- 00:16:19Transforming Our participation into a
- 00:16:21blend of direct engagement and mediated
- 00:16:23documentation of it happening in real
- 00:16:25time often when we're out with friends
- 00:16:26and we're experiencing life with them
- 00:16:28we're showing them things that our lives
- 00:16:29through our screens little bits of our
- 00:16:30life our understanding of each other
- 00:16:32comes not from living with each other
- 00:16:33but scraps of perspectives of who they
- 00:16:35are in certain moments and with a lot of
- 00:16:36modern relationships nowadays while the
- 00:16:38core attendant of them take place in
- 00:16:39real life face to face a significant
- 00:16:41amount of time in the relationship
- 00:16:42happens in texting snaps or calls it's
- 00:16:45usually not the core of a relationship
- 00:16:47but a lot of the building blocks like
- 00:16:48getting to know someone forming inside
- 00:16:49jokes setting boundaries and building
- 00:16:51trust comes from conversing through text
- 00:16:53rather than in person or take the more
- 00:16:54mundane aspects of typical day-to-day
- 00:16:56life while driving somewhere or on the
- 00:16:58train you could sit in silence just
- 00:17:00thinking maybe resting maybe dreaming
- 00:17:03you could or you can listen to a podcast
- 00:17:05you could scroll and see what your
- 00:17:06friends are doing or you could listen to
- 00:17:07that album you like now there is a
- 00:17:08choice there you have free will but
- 00:17:10really who would choose the silence over
- 00:17:12entertainment moments like these are so
- 00:17:13forgettable that we spend them thinking
- 00:17:15about everything that isn't happening
- 00:17:16right now you're not thinking of your
- 00:17:18toothbrush when you're brushing your
- 00:17:19teeth it's subconscious this is why I
- 00:17:21feel people are in certain aspects
- 00:17:23uncharitable when talking about young
- 00:17:24people's relationship to their phones
- 00:17:26it's not only just understandable why
- 00:17:28they're doing this but actually seems
- 00:17:29like a natural evolution of us fixing
- 00:17:31certain existential problems have you
- 00:17:32ever experienced a moment so grandio or
- 00:17:34personal that you wish to could last
- 00:17:35forever or immortalize it in away like a
- 00:17:37concert with friends or a wedding or
- 00:17:39trip or a massive life change well now
- 00:17:40you can capture it and share it making a
- 00:17:42memory lost forever in real time have
- 00:17:45you ever been on public transport and
- 00:17:46bought out of your mind well now you
- 00:17:47don't have to we have in a way fixed
- 00:17:49boredom there's always something new to
- 00:17:51look at there's always something new to
- 00:17:52hear and because of the algorithm not
- 00:17:54only is there this never-ending content
- 00:17:55but it's cater to you remember earlier
- 00:17:57when I was talking about how art is
- 00:17:59usually Universal and displays core
- 00:18:00aspects of what it means to be human
- 00:18:02Jen's language humor and expression
- 00:18:04mirrors the algorithm and is instead
- 00:18:06very individualistic it relies on
- 00:18:07previous context to relate to it usually
- 00:18:09tying into whatever they watch or
- 00:18:11consume this new kind of manufactured
- 00:18:13individualism has brought a new way of
- 00:18:14perceiving each other as well we
- 00:18:16originally created art to imitate life
- 00:18:18but strangely now life is imitating art
- 00:18:19and the expression of self identity
- 00:18:21itself has become tied to Media
- 00:18:23essentially in a more day-to-day context
- 00:18:25there is a growing trade-off in the
- 00:18:27supposed advancement and con and
- 00:18:28companion of infinite everything's
- 00:18:30regarding perspective why sit through a
- 00:18:32lecture when you can skip to the parts
- 00:18:34relevant to you and your studies why
- 00:18:35read something when you can watch a
- 00:18:36summary why watch something at one time
- 00:18:38speed when you can watch it at two and
- 00:18:40retain the same amount of information
- 00:18:42why do the dishes without music when you
- 00:18:43could make it more enjoyable why manage
- 00:18:45your reading requires sitting alone by
- 00:18:47yourself in a quiet room and I have
- 00:18:49friends intelligent friends who don't
- 00:18:52like to read because they get it's not
- 00:18:54just bored there's an there's an almost
- 00:18:56dread that comes up I think about having
- 00:18:59to be alone and having to be quiet and
- 00:19:01you see that when you walk into most
- 00:19:02public spaces in America it isn't quiet
- 00:19:04anymore they pipe music through and the
- 00:19:07music's easy to make fun of because it's
- 00:19:09usually really horrible music but it
- 00:19:11seems significant that we don't want
- 00:19:13things to be quiet ever anymore and and
- 00:19:16to me I don't know that I could defend
- 00:19:18it but that seems to me to have
- 00:19:20something to do with when when you feel
- 00:19:22like your the purpose of your life is to
- 00:19:26gratify yourself and get things for
- 00:19:28yourself and go all the time there's
- 00:19:30this other part of you that that that's
- 00:19:33the same part that can kind of is almost
- 00:19:35hungry for silence and quiet and
- 00:19:38thinking really hard about the same
- 00:19:39thing for maybe half an hour instead of
- 00:19:4130 seconds that doesn't get fed at all I
- 00:19:44feel there are many different duly
- 00:19:45existing contradictions about the 21st
- 00:19:47century we are more connected than ever
- 00:19:49and yet we are isolated we seem to be
- 00:19:50over stimulated and yet there seems to
- 00:19:52be a numbness from that over stimulation
- 00:19:54seeing too much too fast if you catch my
- 00:19:56drift we have more information than ever
- 00:19:57but we can't focus it's not that we're
- 00:19:59not introspective we aren't thinking
- 00:20:01about these problems far from it I think
- 00:20:03it is the type of introspection that
- 00:20:04we're participating in what's weirdly
- 00:20:06happened in a post lockdown and post Tik
- 00:20:07Tok landscape is analysis of social
- 00:20:09interaction has become like the
- 00:20:11intellectual popcorn I was talking about
- 00:20:12earlier it's bite-sized it's fast and
- 00:20:14it's a form of analysis that favors
- 00:20:15brevity over depth the observations
- 00:20:17don't come to a real conclusion they
- 00:20:19aren't full stops they cater to The
- 00:20:20Accelerated pace of modern attention
- 00:20:22habits because they like it need to
- 00:20:24constantly keep moving it's important to
- 00:20:26note how usually for lack of a better
- 00:20:27word dispos visible a lot of this
- 00:20:29content is it's not that it won't age
- 00:20:31well that's not the issue it's that it
- 00:20:32simply won't be important or insightful
- 00:20:34or in any sort of way useful in a very
- 00:20:35short amount of time because it isn't
- 00:20:37made to have any sort of staying power
- 00:20:38it's like watching old advertisements
- 00:20:40for products that don't exist anymore
- 00:20:42its sole purpose to make you want a
- 00:20:44product has no enduring value because
- 00:20:46there's no point in being advertised in
- 00:20:47Old dream that's what a majority of this
- 00:20:49junk data will become irrelevant pieces
- 00:20:51that have become obsolete this once
- 00:20:53again has to do with the algorithm the
- 00:20:55algorithm is not a judgment of worth
- 00:20:56it's a judgment on relevance and
- 00:20:57recommendations as our attention spans
- 00:20:59get faster and faster and we need more
- 00:21:01stimulation moments discussions and
- 00:21:03topics begin to follow the same suit
- 00:21:05that's why I generally have avoided
- 00:21:07giving specific examples or speaking
- 00:21:08about specific people any example I
- 00:21:10could give in this video would be
- 00:21:11outdated within 2 years if that because
- 00:21:13internet culture is always changing
- 00:21:15which may make my writing seem vague but
- 00:21:17I'm trying to demonstrate that while the
- 00:21:18people in Trends have very little
- 00:21:19staying power as does the commentary the
- 00:21:22impact of them does it will stay with
- 00:21:24the generation long after it is relevant
- 00:21:26that's what makes broad internet
- 00:21:27analysis very strange the most important
- 00:21:29part which is how this is changing
- 00:21:30social dynamics in perception language
- 00:21:32and our view of each other at a rapid
- 00:21:34Pace at least at this point in history
- 00:21:36doesn't get discussed in the way it
- 00:21:37should because the events and topics
- 00:21:39themselves are always more interesting
- 00:21:40engaging and profitable than the meta
- 00:21:42commentary meaning we aren't having a
- 00:21:44sustained conversation about the impact
- 00:21:45of Internet culture we are just having
- 00:21:47conversations about trends that lightly
- 00:21:49tackle the subject an example I could
- 00:21:50use that I haven't seen many people talk
- 00:21:52about is a sort of paralysis of choice
- 00:21:54with upsetting news coverage I mentioned
- 00:21:56this previously on a more existential
- 00:21:57video in topic but on a personal level
- 00:21:59there is a guilt between the choice of
- 00:22:01being emotionally affected but informed
- 00:22:02on the news or choosing to be blissfully
- 00:22:04ignorant purposely with certain kinds of
- 00:22:06information that is upsetting it's not
- 00:22:08just the argument of being informed or
- 00:22:09uninformed it's about the response and
- 00:22:11philosophy of how we deal with this new
- 00:22:12change of constant information visually
- 00:22:14auditorally and most importantly
- 00:22:16subconsciously originally news in the
- 00:22:18earliest systematic way was delivered
- 00:22:19from Messengers or town criers until the
- 00:22:21printing press came around and
- 00:22:22information could be replicated in Mass
- 00:22:24it presented a more structured and
- 00:22:26periodic way of presenting information
- 00:22:27rather than this sporadic and often
- 00:22:29times sensationalized words of speakers
- 00:22:31trying to draw a crowd it also had Mass
- 00:22:33manufacturing meaning a lot more people
- 00:22:35had the opportunity of being informed
- 00:22:36although they still had the issue of
- 00:22:38travel in the process of distribution
- 00:22:40radio's development resulted in a more
- 00:22:41immediate and dynamic form of
- 00:22:43communication compared to print the
- 00:22:44immediacy and simplicity of radio
- 00:22:46broadcasting allowed for Rapid
- 00:22:47dissemination to the public during
- 00:22:49emergencies natural disasters or any
- 00:22:50significant events radio stations could
- 00:22:52quickly provide updates and report on
- 00:22:54the unfolding developments potentially
- 00:22:56aiding the public in dangerous
- 00:22:57situations it also aoid Ed the monotony
- 00:22:59of overwhelming the audience with
- 00:23:00information the presenter's tone and
- 00:23:02speed while talking their range their
- 00:23:03pause built a much more Vivid and
- 00:23:05personable experience of listening it
- 00:23:07was an active experience not a passive
- 00:23:09one television in the early stages of
- 00:23:11news coverage was actually much more
- 00:23:12brief than what we know of today in
- 00:23:14comparison to contemporary segments they
- 00:23:16used a much more concise shorter format
- 00:23:17that focused on essential information
- 00:23:19without the extended commentary or
- 00:23:20feature stories it was built around the
- 00:23:22limited time slots the network gave them
- 00:23:24earlier TV networks favored
- 00:23:26entertainment over news as they knew the
- 00:23:27public would have more attention on it
- 00:23:29and didn't want to gamble in the
- 00:23:30medium's infancy incrementally segments
- 00:23:32began getting longer and more developed
- 00:23:3410 minutes became 30 Graphics charts and
- 00:23:36visuals were created to Aid viewers
- 00:23:37understanding and TV hosts became more
- 00:23:39personable as TV evolved and Equipment
- 00:23:41Advanced further there was a transition
- 00:23:43from black and white to color television
- 00:23:44remote controls became a standard
- 00:23:46feature allowing viewers to change
- 00:23:47channels and adjust settings without
- 00:23:48physically interacting with the
- 00:23:49television set satellite technology
- 00:23:51enabled live reporting from remote
- 00:23:53locations so journalists could provide
- 00:23:54real-time coverage of events as they
- 00:23:56unfolded and as mentioned in the first
- 00:23:58section of the video TV networks changed
- 00:24:00in the ' 80s and '90s to employ 24-hour
- 00:24:01news coverage and became globalized
- 00:24:03Crossing Regional or national boundaries
- 00:24:05to report on international events and as
- 00:24:07the ' 80s and '90s Illustrated
- 00:24:09themselves as they went down the Bold
- 00:24:10arrow that is time computers and early
- 00:24:12websites also became a consistently
- 00:24:14growing way to learn and perceive
- 00:24:15information eventually becoming the
- 00:24:17dominant influence early news websites
- 00:24:19were primarily Tech Centric they
- 00:24:21featured minimal graphics and images
- 00:24:23focusing on delivering news articles in
- 00:24:24a straightforward format almost
- 00:24:26mirroring the early TV segments as the
- 00:24:28emphas was on providing information
- 00:24:30rather than visual appeal users could
- 00:24:31read articles but features today such as
- 00:24:33commenting sharing or interactive
- 00:24:35multimedia elements were not as common
- 00:24:37but they soon would be as Internet
- 00:24:38speeds increased websites started
- 00:24:40incorporating more Dynamic content it
- 00:24:42began incorporating audio clips image
- 00:24:43galleries interactive Graphics in a more
- 00:24:45stylized approach users were no longer
- 00:24:47passive recipients of information they
- 00:24:49became active participants in shaping
- 00:24:50the discourse previously the general
- 00:24:52public could write emails to news
- 00:24:54stations and people could spread
- 00:24:55information locally or through word of
- 00:24:57mouth but the impact was often localized
- 00:24:58and limited by the reach of traditional
- 00:25:00media the ability to have a camera
- 00:25:02integrated into a portable mobile phone
- 00:25:04paired with the new 3G that allowed
- 00:25:05communication streamlines the very
- 00:25:07process of broadcast to the general
- 00:25:09public and with websites popping up in
- 00:25:10the 2000s such as YouTube Facebook and
- 00:25:12Twitter it was clear that the medium of
- 00:25:14online content was going to be driven by
- 00:25:15user generated media that was unlike the
- 00:25:17previously controlled networks nothing
- 00:25:19exemplifies this more than YouTube's
- 00:25:20original motto of broadcast yourself in
- 00:25:23the 2010s a slow but noticeable shift
- 00:25:25happened mainly for the younger
- 00:25:26Generations where they primarily got
- 00:25:27their information from online platforms
- 00:25:30the appeal and advantage of such
- 00:25:31platforms being the immediacy community
- 00:25:33and tailored interests filled with
- 00:25:34like-minded people it didn't have to
- 00:25:36feel personable presentable or
- 00:25:37marketable because it was made tailored
- 00:25:39for a person's individualistic taste and
- 00:25:41because the internet was user generated
- 00:25:43unlike networks any interest hobby or
- 00:25:45area would likely have developing
- 00:25:47connected communities that would share
- 00:25:48information media and development also
- 00:25:50in the 2010s the internet became quite
- 00:25:52centralized and is stayed that way a
- 00:25:54select few websites became the hubs for
- 00:25:56discussion content production and
- 00:25:57developments and while the internet is
- 00:25:59the biggest it's ever been a majority of
- 00:26:00the traffic is driven by the same few
- 00:26:02websites any event or development in the
- 00:26:04world would have people sharing their
- 00:26:05thoughts personal stories or anecdotes
- 00:26:07all the time 24/7 infinite developments
- 00:26:10infinite news citizen journalism became
- 00:26:12one of the primary ways journalists and
- 00:26:14networks got information with photos
- 00:26:15videos and eyewitness accounts
- 00:26:17consistently sharing events unfolding
- 00:26:19all over the world live and obviously
- 00:26:21misinformation due to the abundance of
- 00:26:22information started growing rapidly I
- 00:26:24want to highlight the importance of the
- 00:26:25platforms when talking about this
- 00:26:27Twitter for example intentionally limits
- 00:26:29the word count of its post currently to
- 00:26:30280 characters though recently you can
- 00:26:33pay for a premium account and
- 00:26:34subscription to unlock up to 4,000 I
- 00:26:36repeat on a platform whose mission is to
- 00:26:38serve the public conversation you have
- 00:26:40to pay in order to speak more than two
- 00:26:42sentences a post this is intentional
- 00:26:45upon Twitter's conception and beginning
- 00:26:46the character limit originally of 140
- 00:26:48characters was tied to the constraints
- 00:26:50of SMS technology earlier SMS had a
- 00:26:52character limit of allowing only 160
- 00:26:54characters per message so when designing
- 00:26:56a micro blogging platform for St status
- 00:26:58updates a compromise that leaned and
- 00:27:00catered to short form information served
- 00:27:02a dual purpose what was originally a
- 00:27:04technical restriction rather than a
- 00:27:05creative decision morphed over time into
- 00:27:08an intentional design choice that
- 00:27:09perfectly predicted a decade in advanced
- 00:27:11social trend of fast information that
- 00:27:13add its to conception was Twitter's
- 00:27:15identity immediate news and reactions
- 00:27:17that a short form while undeniably an
- 00:27:19intelligent business move by making news
- 00:27:21more entertaining and once again more
- 00:27:22digestible the act of withholding the
- 00:27:24ability to write more is designed to
- 00:27:26spark confrontational and strong
- 00:27:27emotional responses which in turn Sparks
- 00:27:29debate which in turn Sparks engagement
- 00:27:31for the platform it is designed to be
- 00:27:33confrontational I'm using this not to
- 00:27:35finger wag but to show that small
- 00:27:37algorithmic shifts or UI changes can
- 00:27:38have a terrifying amount of power in
- 00:27:40changing how a substantial part of the
- 00:27:41population socially interacts and
- 00:27:43perceives things people don't really
- 00:27:45talk about the UI or algorithm unless
- 00:27:47it's short-hand advice on manipulating
- 00:27:48it because once again the trends are
- 00:27:50more interesting than the meta
- 00:27:51commentary but the platforms have a
- 00:27:52unique identity that I haven't seen
- 00:27:54people talk about take if one day Tik
- 00:27:55Tok Instagram or any of the other
- 00:27:57day-to-day Central Iz social media gets
- 00:27:59deleted I'm sure a lot of its history
- 00:28:00will be preserved but I'm also just ass
- 00:28:02sure that in whatever manner the
- 00:28:03preservation takes place it will miss
- 00:28:05out on some of the much needed context
- 00:28:06to understand the actual climate
- 00:28:08landscape interpersonal connection and
- 00:28:10culture of what it was like the very way
- 00:28:11the feed shows us content and updates
- 00:28:13has a massive impact passively of how we
- 00:28:15view it if you divorce the feed from
- 00:28:17Posts and the posts isolated then
- 00:28:18becomes the remembrance for how Twitter
- 00:28:20Instagram or YouTube was it's a
- 00:28:22misrepresentation this is unlike any
- 00:28:23other information platform you could
- 00:28:25watch a TV program without the context
- 00:28:27of its platform and not miss much
- 00:28:28because TV was a strict schedule of
- 00:28:30pre-planned airings not a personalized
- 00:28:32everchanging feed based on a
- 00:28:33personalized everchanging algorithm the
- 00:28:35process of getting information
- 00:28:36fundamentally has remained the same
- 00:28:38observe take in remember but it's very
- 00:28:40different to hear about an event read
- 00:28:41about an event to be explained about an
- 00:28:43event than to visually see one in an
- 00:28:45interaction based platform it is very
- 00:28:47different to read about an event that
- 00:28:48happened a week ago or even a day ago
- 00:28:50compared to witnessing it live watching
- 00:28:52it unfold in real time you get a strange
- 00:28:54sense of participating as an observer or
- 00:28:56even as a speaker every other type of
- 00:28:58information platform that came before
- 00:28:59the internet had an expectancy of its
- 00:29:01information TV as mentioned has a set
- 00:29:03list of erings radio was a reading or a
- 00:29:04conversation and books were static and
- 00:29:06fixed repositories of information as a
- 00:29:08contrast on the internet you can see a
- 00:29:10forest fire and the next thing you'll
- 00:29:11see is a dog jumping into a puddle you
- 00:29:13could see hyperball next to modesty it's
- 00:29:15unpredictable information which is also
- 00:29:17intentional what these centralized
- 00:29:18social media websites have done is
- 00:29:20turned the process of getting
- 00:29:21information itself into a carrot on a
- 00:29:23stick with the carrot being the
- 00:29:24information and the stick being the
- 00:29:25feeling of missing out on what's
- 00:29:26happening every refresh every scroll is
- 00:29:29more information junk information mostly
- 00:29:31but what is one man's junk is another's
- 00:29:33treasure the algorithm is constantly
- 00:29:34analyzing users micro actions to find
- 00:29:36out according to the user which is which
- 00:29:38the aftermath of all of this is one of
- 00:29:40the most unseen but in hindsight obvious
- 00:29:42sociological effects that quietly
- 00:29:44happened in the 2010s and onwards which
- 00:29:46is knowing too much seeing too much
- 00:29:49should I really know what I'll look like
- 00:29:51in 50 years should I see everything I'm
- 00:29:53interested in whenever I want should I
- 00:29:54know intricate details about people I
- 00:29:56don't know should I be hyper aware of my
- 00:29:58own flaws to the point where an
- 00:29:59algorithm can rate me on a semiobjective
- 00:30:00scale should I really get to see the
- 00:30:02gravity of a foreign conflict in its
- 00:30:04brutality is there any benefit to me
- 00:30:06individualistically seeing that the
- 00:30:08feeling of seeing something like this on
- 00:30:10the timeline being temporarily modified
- 00:30:12and then continuing scrolling is a type
- 00:30:14of emotion that hasn't been written
- 00:30:15about yet is it better to feel the
- 00:30:17weight of that knowledge and care about
- 00:30:18it should I ignore it for my own
- 00:30:20happiness is that the right move should
- 00:30:21I feel guilty for ignoring upsetting
- 00:30:23information for my own mental well-being
- 00:30:25should I keep doing rhetorical questions
- 00:30:27how much the world's weight should I
- 00:30:29carry on my shoulders is there any real
- 00:30:31reason I should I know it seems like I'm
- 00:30:33reducing this down to Binary
- 00:30:34inconsequential choice but this really
- 00:30:36is what it feels like to me and even if
- 00:30:38I do purposely ignore information and
- 00:30:40pretty much put my head in the sand I'll
- 00:30:42end up hearing about it anyways when I
- 00:30:43talk to people because again everyone I
- 00:30:45speak to nowadays is online when I'm out
- 00:30:48in nature cities my house or traveling
- 00:30:49there's nothing usually actually wrong
- 00:30:51happening when you look outside it's
- 00:30:53fine there's something so interesting
- 00:30:54about that disconnect in the west most
- 00:30:56of our lives in the 21st Century have no
- 00:30:58immediate danger and yet it feels like
- 00:31:00anxiety and paranoia has never been more
- 00:31:02prevalent to put it even more simply
- 00:31:04hopefully not to the point of reduction
- 00:31:06should I see any of
- 00:31:13this in the middle of 2021 as the
- 00:31:15pandemic hit my country I decided to
- 00:31:17quit social media and go dark I deleted
- 00:31:19everything and shut myself off from what
- 00:31:21was happening I just read books watched
- 00:31:23old movies read political Theory did my
- 00:31:24online school and worked out I for the
- 00:31:26first time in a long time felt like like
- 00:31:28I could psychologically breathe without
- 00:31:29people constantly telling me how I
- 00:31:30should be living my life or how I should
- 00:31:32recontextualize things it was the
- 00:31:33happiest I'd been in a long time the
- 00:31:35reason I quit was because I recognized
- 00:31:37early on that there is nothing I could
- 00:31:39psychologically gain from learning about
- 00:31:41problems I can't fix and that felt like
- 00:31:43the entirety of the early 2020s knowing
- 00:31:45bad things are happening to innocent
- 00:31:46people having it broadcast everywhere
- 00:31:48talked about everywhere getting given an
- 00:31:49infinite number of perspectives and just
- 00:31:51sort of watching Global events as an
- 00:31:53observer rather than a participant the
- 00:31:55only pragmatic thing you could do with
- 00:31:56the knowledge is behavior analysis like
- 00:31:58guy and many others have done but that's
- 00:31:59about it or arguing winning and losing
- 00:32:01debates on varying topics which usually
- 00:32:03never change anything it's just people
- 00:32:04trying to make themselves look more
- 00:32:05intelligent and win points ignorance
- 00:32:08isn't just Bliss in the information age
- 00:32:09it feels like psychological healing I
- 00:32:11don't mean to project here but I think
- 00:32:13there's a reason that self-help and
- 00:32:14self-improvement has exploded in 2020s
- 00:32:17it's almost like a response to needless
- 00:32:18information and feeling powerless
- 00:32:20against it the generation gap as
- 00:32:21mentioned previous has left genen Z
- 00:32:23without guidance to navigate such a
- 00:32:24drastically changed social and economic
- 00:32:26ecosystem something filled that void I'm
- 00:32:29going to talk about this with a more
- 00:32:30critical look later on especially its
- 00:32:32more Fringe elements but at a base level
- 00:32:35it is quite admirable that jz's first
- 00:32:37immediate conscious response to Growing
- 00:32:38Up in such a weird environment and
- 00:32:40fluctuating state is to fight it through
- 00:32:42a form of self-growth self-improvement
- 00:32:44has always existed most philosophical
- 00:32:46text while some are speculative is about
- 00:32:48how you should live rather than what is
- 00:32:49life people all throughout history have
- 00:32:51attuned themselves to different mindsets
- 00:32:52and explore what it means to live what
- 00:32:54habits should we develop and the general
- 00:32:55pursuit of a good life so while a lot of
- 00:32:57speakers act like they just discovered a
- 00:32:59secret life hack that no one else has
- 00:33:00thought of for dramatic effect if you
- 00:33:02look at it a majority of
- 00:33:03self-improvement influences are just
- 00:33:05riffing on what the Greeks educated and
- 00:33:07that's not a bad thing the Greeks nailed
- 00:33:08it self-examination trying to focus on
- 00:33:10things you can control accepting fate
- 00:33:11and Circumstance they're all good
- 00:33:13virtues that is simple to implement but
- 00:33:14hard to keep restraint is another type
- 00:33:16of stoic virtue that has been actually
- 00:33:18updated in modern times restraint was
- 00:33:20typically against vices like lost gluty
- 00:33:21and greed and while that still applies
- 00:33:23and holds weight a lot of what jenzi is
- 00:33:25trying to get away from take a break
- 00:33:26from or just set a time limit on is
- 00:33:28ironically most of the advancements that
- 00:33:29have defined Our Generation and will be
- 00:33:31remembered as our Legacy not the vices
- 00:33:33baked into our fundamental psychology
- 00:33:35everyone can recognize the utility of
- 00:33:36all these new changes it's practically
- 00:33:38disingenuous not to but it's also
- 00:33:40recognizable that scrolling feels
- 00:33:42purposeless sometimes it can become like
- 00:33:44an intellectual version of materialism
- 00:33:46where instead of possessions it's
- 00:33:48gaining more knowledge that at a certain
- 00:33:49point just becomes noise that covers up
- 00:33:51just being alone with yourself like
- 00:33:53watching a sitcom as a replacement for
- 00:33:55company what makes philosophy like
- 00:33:56stoicism attract and especially
- 00:33:58attractive in this age as opposed to
- 00:34:00contemporary advice or media feeds is
- 00:34:02that it has staying power it's ironic
- 00:34:04but a problem of seeing too much in an
- 00:34:05algorithmic information platform is that
- 00:34:07most of the things you see aren't
- 00:34:08helpful I can't use a majority of this
- 00:34:10the platforms advertise themselves as
- 00:34:12the place where discussions take place
- 00:34:14but what's the point of this when so
- 00:34:15many discussions are over trivial things
- 00:34:17that I don't really gain anything by
- 00:34:18viewing there's a duality in feeling
- 00:34:20like I'm wasting time while on it but
- 00:34:22also a feeling of missing out when I'm
- 00:34:23not as a segue juer position unlike a
- 00:34:26lot of other skills in life
- 00:34:27weightlifting or training the body
- 00:34:28through exercise gives a visible
- 00:34:30difference you can track over time with
- 00:34:32a skill like cooking for example it's a
- 00:34:34more routine-like awareness of kitchen
- 00:34:35knowledge and ingredients as you improve
- 00:34:37knowing things like the right
- 00:34:38temperature of heat when something is
- 00:34:40finished which fruit looks good at the
- 00:34:41supermarket these things are built over
- 00:34:43time but you don't change fundamentally
- 00:34:45you just grow a subconscious awareness
- 00:34:47through repetition and practice in
- 00:34:49contrast weightlifting is a consistent
- 00:34:51conscious persistence to improving a
- 00:34:52skill for the purpose of visibly seeing
- 00:34:54a difference the amount of effort you
- 00:34:56put in directly has an effect on the man
- 00:34:57of muscle gained it's a reward system
- 00:35:00built off the fruits of your labor
- 00:35:01something interesting about rewards in
- 00:35:03the digital age is how designed they are
- 00:35:05Instagram's likes are meticulously
- 00:35:06engineered to trigger specific
- 00:35:08psychological responses the use of red
- 00:35:10when a notification appears the visible
- 00:35:12metrics of that number stacking the way
- 00:35:13posts are never isolated but always in
- 00:35:15comparison of each other built to
- 00:35:17manipulate our pre-existing psychology
- 00:35:19and make us crave the admiration we see
- 00:35:20others have video games are another
- 00:35:22great example of this in a different
- 00:35:24flavor there is a reason that in
- 00:35:25Industries such as online multiplayer
- 00:35:27games they've beun doing the live
- 00:35:28service format games are starting to
- 00:35:30feel like secondary jobs with how much
- 00:35:31grinding TDM they have to unlock things
- 00:35:33or keep player retention it's like a
- 00:35:35surrogate replacement to having actually
- 00:35:36done something fulfilling some challenge
- 00:35:38getting some achievement or unlocking
- 00:35:39something through time in the game World
- 00:35:41Keeps the player engaged and feeling
- 00:35:42fulfilled it scratches that itch of
- 00:35:44dopamine of having achieved something
- 00:35:46and with things like battle passes and
- 00:35:47events it creates pressure to log on
- 00:35:49every day and do certain tasks so that
- 00:35:50they don't expire and you get a reward
- 00:35:52it's a feedback loop of validation that
- 00:35:54is also designed to make you feel
- 00:35:55empowered or that you've earned
- 00:35:57something whether whether you're
- 00:35:58actually having fun becomes something
- 00:35:59arbitrary as the main focus is not
- 00:36:01letting this item or event get away from
- 00:36:03you but weightlifting as a comparison
- 00:36:05again isn't designed to be empowering it
- 00:36:07is just empowering it wasn't made by
- 00:36:08Silicon Valley types or a boardroom of
- 00:36:10Executives it's intrinsically what our
- 00:36:12reward systems are built for to
- 00:36:13incentivize us to achieve and when so
- 00:36:15many modern-day practices are predicated
- 00:36:17on unnaturally manipulating our natural
- 00:36:19reward systems that which is just
- 00:36:21natural feels like a breath of fresh air
- 00:36:23sure there is a noticeable effort in
- 00:36:24achieving things in games and it can
- 00:36:26sometimes be beneficial socially
- 00:36:28especially when in groups of friends and
- 00:36:29the likes feel good momentarily and can
- 00:36:31show appreciation of great works or
- 00:36:33Genuine Talent OR pretty people or
- 00:36:34whatever but I can feel the difference
- 00:36:36after a workout it's not just a quick
- 00:36:38Rush of endorphins it's the process of
- 00:36:40the body rebuilding itself as you put on
- 00:36:42more plates or do more reps day by day
- 00:36:44week by week growing stronger it remains
- 00:36:46a constant reminder of progress the body
- 00:36:48is always with you and that effort is
- 00:36:49always visible it's gratifying to
- 00:36:51visually see change and in a generation
- 00:36:53that feels starved of autonomy doing
- 00:36:55something simple but so rewarding spread
- 00:36:57like a wildfire as did other practices
- 00:36:59that gave similar albeit smaller rewards
- 00:37:02at a base level with a heavy emphasis on
- 00:37:04base level I don't think anyone could
- 00:37:05really have an issue with this a lot of
- 00:37:07modern self-help is just basic good
- 00:37:09advice for a generation that didn't
- 00:37:10really receive it as much and I think a
- 00:37:12prime example is the king pin book of
- 00:37:13stoicism meditations by aelius remember
- 00:37:16when I was talking about work being
- 00:37:17Timeless this is a perfect example the
- 00:37:20emperor's private Recollections that
- 00:37:21later became known to the public are not
- 00:37:23dense or esoteric they are Timeless and
- 00:37:25relatable Peaks into someone else's
- 00:37:27journey of improving the self and all
- 00:37:28the challenges and growth that comes
- 00:37:30with it it just happens they were a
- 00:37:31major figure in history personally what
- 00:37:33I found the most important out of every
- 00:37:35lesson I've learned is to let go of the
- 00:37:36things you know are bad for you and
- 00:37:38media and content is at the top of my
- 00:37:40list as nice as it would be to say to
- 00:37:42myself or pride myself on not letting
- 00:37:43social media affects my judgment it
- 00:37:45subconsciously and very subtly does in
- 00:37:47ways I will never know once you see
- 00:37:49something over and over and over and
- 00:37:51over and over and over and over and over
- 00:37:54and over and over and are surrounded by
- 00:37:56it you will be influenced by it to have
- 00:37:58a break from that and not have media
- 00:38:00altering my perception to have those
- 00:38:01quiet boring train rides to have every
- 00:38:03moment I have with someone being lived
- 00:38:04experienced together rather than 1H hour
- 00:38:06small talk calls or what feels like the
- 00:38:08same convo over and over again to notice
- 00:38:10really small things I didn't before to
- 00:38:11not just smell the roses but look at
- 00:38:13them to watch a movie and have it be a
- 00:38:15special moment because you're not
- 00:38:16constantly watching things every hour it
- 00:38:18was nice it felt refreshing however I
- 00:38:22noticed quickly I was conversationally
- 00:38:24isolated from my peers and friends I had
- 00:38:25no idea what the f they were talking
- 00:38:27about nine times out of 10 because I
- 00:38:29wasn't up to date with what was being
- 00:38:30talked about when you don't have these
- 00:38:31apps you miss out on a lot of modern-day
- 00:38:33context of conversations and Ina convos
- 00:38:35the inside jokes the group chats the
- 00:38:37life updates you miss out on them the
- 00:38:39really really sad thing is especially
- 00:38:41post pandemic it's hard to talk to
- 00:38:43people nowadays my age without having at
- 00:38:45least some bearing on what's happening
- 00:38:47because again culture is constant now
- 00:38:49information goes fast in this generation
- 00:38:51maybe before a certain virus I could
- 00:38:52have ended or done a conclusion to this
- 00:38:54video with something attaining to just
- 00:38:56go outside but things have massively
- 00:38:57changed since then my previous mindset
- 00:38:59sort of waving away what happened to
- 00:39:01jenzie as they should just put the phone
- 00:39:02down is too simplified because the issue
- 00:39:04is not just lifestyle it's in the way we
- 00:39:06see talk and perceive each other and
- 00:39:08running away from issues while they're
- 00:39:09still happening is like shutting off a
- 00:39:10fire alarm while the fire is still going
- 00:39:12sure you're not alerted to the fire
- 00:39:14anymore in this case the phone anymore
- 00:39:15but it's still there and it's going to
- 00:39:17grow to the point where you can't ignore
- 00:39:18it anymore what I mean by it's still
- 00:39:20there is even though I quit social media
- 00:39:22and started using an older phone that
- 00:39:23didn't have any internet access
- 00:39:25essentially like an old MP3 player I
- 00:39:27couldn't avoid using a laptop for school
- 00:39:29and when I went out with friends I
- 00:39:30needed my phone to coordinate and send
- 00:39:31where I was on the GPS and just because
- 00:39:33I didn't use my phone that didn't mean
- 00:39:34the people in my life weren't using
- 00:39:36theirs I could stop social media kind of
- 00:39:38people would always reference it I would
- 00:39:40have to search something for an
- 00:39:41assignment on YouTube and then see that
- 00:39:42monolithic never-ending bouquet of
- 00:39:44people with exaggerated facial
- 00:39:45expressions someone would tell me
- 00:39:47they've sent me something hilarious then
- 00:39:48I'd have to explain I deleted that app
- 00:39:50and I can't look at it then they would
- 00:39:51send me the website version on messages
- 00:39:53which is laggy and glitchy seemingly on
- 00:39:55a purpose to make you want to download
- 00:39:56the official app and also one of the
- 00:39:58biggest if not the biggest reason to
- 00:40:00have social media is to keep up with
- 00:40:01friends and family that live in other
- 00:40:02parts of the world social media has no
- 00:40:04call cost in contrast with just ringing
- 00:40:06them and it has stories and updates so
- 00:40:08you know what's going on in their life
- 00:40:09and can stay at least partially
- 00:40:10connected what I'm trying to demonstrate
- 00:40:12is that it's not an individualist
- 00:40:13problem really it hasn't been for a
- 00:40:15while internet addiction sure is you
- 00:40:17could fix that through lifestyle and is
- 00:40:19interdependent on a person's habits but
- 00:40:21just not being technological not being
- 00:40:23present in any online medium just going
- 00:40:25outside it's an easy onine of throwaway
- 00:40:28that's going to be harder and harder to
- 00:40:29say as we rely on technology more and
- 00:40:31more think of things like neuralink and
- 00:40:336 and 7g in the future or VR slowly but
- 00:40:35steadily becoming a real thing or to
- 00:40:37make it painfully obvious look at 10
- 00:40:38years ago and then look at today you
- 00:40:40cannot tell me that the way we interact
- 00:40:42with each other has not change
- 00:40:43dramatically I think the terms
- 00:40:45terminally online and insults that
- 00:40:46pertain to internet brain Rod are going
- 00:40:48to become more and more used despite the
- 00:40:50obvious fact that everything to do with
- 00:40:51Society is becoming more technological
- 00:40:53and online I've been thinking for years
- 00:40:55that culture was going to become like
- 00:40:56this but it's accelerated faster than I
- 00:40:58ever thought it would again we've gone
- 00:40:59to the point where people aren't even
- 00:41:01looking at social media themselves
- 00:41:02anymore they are watching other people
- 00:41:04look at social media it would be really
- 00:41:05nice to say that this doesn't matter and
- 00:41:07it's just a funny sad thing to look at
- 00:41:09from a distance but sadly it does matter
- 00:41:10now it's not just internet culture
- 00:41:12anymore it is just slowly becoming
- 00:41:14culture used to be unconventional to be
- 00:41:15online in the '90s now it's an
- 00:41:17expectancy the issue with viewing this
- 00:41:19as individualistic is that it ignores
- 00:41:20how utilized media and technology has
- 00:41:22become with this generation's
- 00:41:23communication and while self-improvement
- 00:41:25the practice itself is more than greater
- 00:41:27and everyone should do it the community
- 00:41:29is so aggressive about focusing on the
- 00:41:31self it ignores the environment and time
- 00:41:32the individual is living in this kind of
- 00:41:34hyper individualism is done usually to
- 00:41:36empower people to view everything in
- 00:41:37their lives as fixable and everything
- 00:41:39that is not as frankly irrelevant which
- 00:41:42on paper is great why worry about that
- 00:41:44which you cannot fix discarded from that
- 00:41:46standpoint all you can do is improve
- 00:41:47there's no negatives only positives
- 00:41:49you've yet to attain only knowledge
- 00:41:51you've yet to accumulate this mentality
- 00:41:53though of everything in your life having
- 00:41:54to be productive or for a lack of a
- 00:41:56better word serving you can lead to
- 00:41:58disregarding things viewed as weighing
- 00:41:59you down a side effect of this is to
- 00:42:01view people as disposable and everyone
- 00:42:03and everything as a competition I'm
- 00:42:05seeing more and more people not only
- 00:42:06adopt this mindset but ditch friends
- 00:42:08because they don't follow the same
- 00:42:09mindset grind set mega mind toy set set
- 00:42:11of beliefs because nothing says I'm a
- 00:42:13freeth thinker more than immediately
- 00:42:14disassociating with anyone who doesn't
- 00:42:16have the same lifestyle or mindset as
- 00:42:18you sounds like a great friend really
- 00:42:19this type of presentation of life is
- 00:42:21done so people can advertise their lives
- 00:42:22as perfect while making people
- 00:42:24especially young people feel guilty
- 00:42:26about their lives make making it more
- 00:42:27competitive making it more isolating
- 00:42:29making it harder to open up leading them
- 00:42:31to want to do the same but if you view
- 00:42:33friendship as only utility in every guy
- 00:42:35you meet is competition how can you ever
- 00:42:37have a genuine connection or friendship
- 00:42:38with someone this should be obvious but
- 00:42:40I don't believe the solution to
- 00:42:42loneliness is getting more and more
- 00:42:43competitive with each other if you think
- 00:42:45about it for maybe a second you'll see
- 00:42:46where that will lead there's also this
- 00:42:48attitude of personal responsibility to
- 00:42:49the e8th degree take phones for example
- 00:42:52social media companies have been
- 00:42:53manipulating and studying our
- 00:42:54neurochemistry for as long as they've
- 00:42:55been around as mentioned previously
- 00:42:57every micro action analyzed for
- 00:42:59optimization this is not going to stop
- 00:43:01to once again counter my idealism at the
- 00:43:03beginning of the video I said J W deal
- 00:43:05with this to gen Z's extent due to genz
- 00:43:07being acclimated to technology and be
- 00:43:09able to guide and give advice for future
- 00:43:11Generations on how to handle it maybe
- 00:43:13stop them from making the same mistakes
- 00:43:15but that once again assumes that
- 00:43:16technology is just going to stay in its
- 00:43:17current place and is not just going to
- 00:43:19evolve but all technology does is
- 00:43:21evolved that's why it's so hard to give
- 00:43:22lasting advice about it because as
- 00:43:24changes happen faster and faster
- 00:43:26contemporary advice device becomes less
- 00:43:27and less meaningful this is why podcasts
- 00:43:29and streamers and self-improvement gurus
- 00:43:31are everywhere they get to speak on
- 00:43:33contemporary issues and problems week to
- 00:43:35week sometimes even day-to-day in a low
- 00:43:37intensity environment without much real
- 00:43:39impact but still get to be heard and say
- 00:43:40something I'm not saying that that's
- 00:43:42necessarily bad but if culturally our
- 00:43:44diet for the comprehension of
- 00:43:45technological change comes from after
- 00:43:47the Chang has happened or after an
- 00:43:48announcement of a new change if our way
- 00:43:50of discussing issues is based on after
- 00:43:52the event are we even taking any
- 00:43:53preventative measures against it or are
- 00:43:55we just again reacting and respecting on
- 00:43:57it when Tik Tok revolutionized modern
- 00:43:59information by copying Vine's homework
- 00:44:01starting out as another lip sync app for
- 00:44:03teenagers and some dancing it sword's
- 00:44:05chance for Staying Power by allowing
- 00:44:06users to not only lip sync but gradually
- 00:44:08expand its content offerings to include
- 00:44:10a broader range of video genres Beyond
- 00:44:12just music skits challenges Beauty art
- 00:44:14and information on social issues it was
- 00:44:16Twitter's old idea set with a more
- 00:44:17personalized tone and less unattractive
- 00:44:20baggage and almost perfectly as a
- 00:44:22companion piece to Jen's cultural
- 00:44:23identity started off as more of a ironic
- 00:44:26self-referential joke that slowly
- 00:44:27morphed into the predominant way people
- 00:44:29watch things like almost everything to
- 00:44:31do with our lexicon starting off as a
- 00:44:33joke then just slowly becoming something
- 00:44:35we say it's easy to look back at this
- 00:44:37time frame and say why did we let this
- 00:44:39happen but it's also quite difficult to
- 00:44:41pinpoint when it really should have
- 00:44:42stopped or slowed down or we should have
- 00:44:43had a Moment of clarity I slowly saw
- 00:44:45people talk about complex multifaceted
- 00:44:47political issues in the span of a minute
- 00:44:49or five sentences including most leaders
- 00:44:51of the Free World was it that moment was
- 00:44:53it the moment that an application
- 00:44:55designed for teenagers had its soulle
- 00:44:56cell selling fact to be that users could
- 00:44:58send each other videos and images that
- 00:45:00delete after opening them essentially
- 00:45:02making it a for teenagers was it then or
- 00:45:04was it when people started talking about
- 00:45:06how fast information is ruining our
- 00:45:08attention spans while using an editing
- 00:45:09style that caters to fast information
- 00:45:11and short attention spans to me that
- 00:45:13moment was recently when I saw multiple
- 00:45:15people say and truly believe that it is
- 00:45:17the children's fault for being addicted
- 00:45:19to their phones despite it being
- 00:45:21self-admittedly designed from all of
- 00:45:22these apps conception and implementation
- 00:45:24to exploit psychological vulnerabilities
- 00:45:26and keep is engag for as long as
- 00:45:28possible people still blame the youth as
- 00:45:30if they wanted any of this to happen or
- 00:45:31responsible for it just as it is bad to
- 00:45:33Sherk personal responsibility and blame
- 00:45:36God and Nature's society and existence
- 00:45:37for all of your problems it is also bad
- 00:45:39to view every failing problem or flaw as
- 00:45:41a personal or individualistic one
- 00:45:43sometimes it is society's fault or
- 00:45:45nature or existence trying to idealize
- 00:45:48reality to the point where you have to
- 00:45:49justify Every Act or viice it has as
- 00:45:51personal will lead you to tyranny
- 00:45:53because when you can't admit bad
- 00:45:54elements and call it out when you see it
- 00:45:56you will be ruled by those horrific
- 00:45:57elements our response to atomization
- 00:46:00where all that matters is the individual
- 00:46:02is further atomization that leans into
- 00:46:04all that matters is the individual I
- 00:46:06didn't and don't mean to get so
- 00:46:07grandiose with this but these companies
- 00:46:09are going to perfect this formula until
- 00:46:11every moment in life is monetizable or C
- 00:46:13to you that sounds incredibly hyperbolic
- 00:46:14and presumptuous of me but this is a
- 00:46:16known real philosophy that companies are
- 00:46:18implementing trying to create the ideal
- 00:46:20algorithm to where you will constantly
- 00:46:21be stimulated by a stimulus feed until
- 00:46:23you aren't living life anymore you're
- 00:46:25just watching it it's called r to the
- 00:46:27bottom of the brain stem there is a
- 00:46:28reason that videos autoplay in one whe
- 00:46:30as this video ends that Netflix shows
- 00:46:32you another movie when the movie is over
- 00:46:34that when the credits roll now you
- 00:46:35instantly get recommended the next
- 00:46:37episode the list goes on and on Autos
- 00:46:39scroll on short form content articles
- 00:46:41having other articles always on screen
- 00:46:43there will be a glass ceiling where we
- 00:46:45won't be able to get any more time out
- 00:46:46of the user not because their methods
- 00:46:48won't continue to become more addictive
- 00:46:49but because they're literally won't be
- 00:46:51any time left to squeeze out of the user
- 00:46:53because of sleep and work for now the
- 00:46:55reason I'm so trepid ious against this
- 00:46:57mentality of not focusing on the problem
- 00:46:59itself and leaving it to the
- 00:47:00corporations is because all throughout
- 00:47:01the 2010s it was shoved down my
- 00:47:03proverbial throat that is an
- 00:47:04individual's fault that they are
- 00:47:05addicted to their phones and year after
- 00:47:07year I saw companies get more
- 00:47:09intelligent and making their digital
- 00:47:10products more addictive I slowly saw the
- 00:47:12same adults lecturing me about wasting
- 00:47:14time on things like video games arguing
- 00:47:15on Twitter on nonsensical issues or
- 00:47:17getting their view on the election from
- 00:47:18Facebook's algorithm so when the same
- 00:47:20shortsighted reductionist argument that
- 00:47:22adults told to me in school was brought
- 00:47:24up in modern-day conversations even more
- 00:47:26so I felt like I was in a whiplash like
- 00:47:28ground dog day where the same arguments
- 00:47:29from my childhood had been recycled
- 00:47:31without meaningful progress almost
- 00:47:32intentionally making children blame
- 00:47:34themselves for what companies have done
- 00:47:35to them and then looking for gurus and
- 00:47:37father figures to fix their
- 00:47:39problems let's just say that this is how
- 00:47:41it's going to be now corporations are
- 00:47:42going to optimize their algorithms more
- 00:47:44and more we optimize ourselves more and
- 00:47:45more like a tennis game of attention
- 00:47:47Wars it makes sense constant adjustment
- 00:47:49to constant change Duality thesis
- 00:47:51anti-thesis and as much as I complain
- 00:47:53about all these changes these doomsday
- 00:47:55scenarios that we see and dystopia
- 00:47:57always neglects that people do have
- 00:47:59their own autonomy and agency and more
- 00:48:00importantly people can recognize when
- 00:48:02they're going off the beaten path
- 00:48:04there's this selfawareness we have in
- 00:48:05digital lifestyle like realizing you're
- 00:48:07out of shape after not working out for a
- 00:48:09while you can look up and see 40 minutes
- 00:48:11went by and you weren't even really
- 00:48:12entertained by what you saw a response
- 00:48:14to that is you could set a time limit or
- 00:48:15you can keep it in your head for next
- 00:48:17time even the mindset I mentioned of
- 00:48:18hyper productivity to the extent of
- 00:48:20leaving people most people even if they
- 00:48:22do end up implementing that mindset will
- 00:48:24likely grow out of it or ask themselves
- 00:48:26is any this actually making me happy
- 00:48:28there is a fundamental resilience we
- 00:48:29psychologically have to recognize when
- 00:48:31something has a grip on us that should
- 00:48:33not and feel an important in a guilt
- 00:48:34about it leading to self assess and
- 00:48:36self-regulate it would be misleading of
- 00:48:38me to leave out that at any given time
- 00:48:40you can opt out of technology or
- 00:48:41self-regulate at a certain point it is
- 00:48:44your fault but the missing link
- 00:48:46overlooked aspect that needs to be
- 00:48:48understood and eventually lead to a
- 00:48:49synthesis and what this entire argument
- 00:48:51hinges on is that children don't have
- 00:48:53the agency to optimize themselves they
- 00:48:55don't have the wherewithal or self-
- 00:48:56awareness to know that they are being
- 00:48:58advertised to they don't have an
- 00:48:59awareness of self because they don't
- 00:49:01know themselves yes 12-year-old me could
- 00:49:03likely set some boundaries some
- 00:49:04restrictions on myself and understand
- 00:49:05that watching Let's Plays all day
- 00:49:07probably wasn't a productive way to
- 00:49:08spend my day but can a 4-year-old can an
- 00:49:108-year-old can a toddler there's
- 00:49:12something really weird happening with
- 00:49:13kids where their primary understanding
- 00:49:15of what it is to be alive and interact
- 00:49:17with people is coming from influences
- 00:49:19advertisements and personalized
- 00:49:20information the way in which they
- 00:49:22interpret reality is coming from media
- 00:49:24this isn't just a new reality for them
- 00:49:26it is is just reality it's all they know
- 00:49:28childhood for a growing number of people
- 00:49:30in the future is not going to be
- 00:49:31playgrounds or playing with toys or
- 00:49:33running around a significant part of
- 00:49:35childhood won't be actual memories of
- 00:49:36doing things it's watching things random
- 00:49:38sound bites and events celebrity moments
- 00:49:41new releases repetitive images watching
- 00:49:43people they don't know but strangely
- 00:49:44feeling closer to them than most of the
- 00:49:46people they do know Niche subcultures
- 00:49:48really strange stuff that completely
- 00:49:50isolates them from most of Humanity's
- 00:49:52upbringing this is why jenzi is the
- 00:49:54lonely generation and I'm not just
- 00:49:56talking rates of loneliness you can
- 00:49:58throw up statistics or charts or explain
- 00:49:59how our attention span is becoming about
- 00:50:01as short as a movement of a finger but
- 00:50:03that doesn't accurately betray what this
- 00:50:04feels like there are certain experiences
- 00:50:06of this generation that just haven't
- 00:50:08been expressed or displayed yet because
- 00:50:09it isn't relatable to The Human
- 00:50:11Experience it's relatable to the digital
- 00:50:13Human Experience what is it like seeing
- 00:50:15someone you care about pass away or
- 00:50:16growing apart from someone but having
- 00:50:18constant access to photos of them brief
- 00:50:20glimpses into who they were again what
- 00:50:22is it like literally seeing time go by
- 00:50:24seemingly faster and faster what is it
- 00:50:26like growing attached to someone you've
- 00:50:27never met what is it like having a
- 00:50:29significant part of your childhood one
- 00:50:30day just be gone what is it like to have
- 00:50:32so many memories that take place in
- 00:50:33environments that fundamentally are not
- 00:50:36real what is that like there is
- 00:50:38something profoundly human here that
- 00:50:40hasn't been captured yet I don't even
- 00:50:41know how to betray or capture it right
- 00:50:43now I'm showing footage meant to be a
- 00:50:45representation of it but I don't think
- 00:50:46it's accurate because the language isn't
- 00:50:48even here yet to describe the issues
- 00:50:49we're facing one of my biggest worries I
- 00:50:51feel is by the time the language is here
- 00:50:53or the medium itself is caught up to its
- 00:50:55own issues in a way that they could
- 00:50:56actually have a lasting conversation
- 00:50:58about it by the time jenzi will be
- 00:51:00intelligent enough to intellectualize
- 00:51:01what happened to us or even write about
- 00:51:03it or properly dissect it it'll be too
- 00:51:05late and gen will be onto its new
- 00:51:07problems and issues or some other new
- 00:51:08technology will come in and change once
- 00:51:10again how we interact with each other
- 00:51:12and thus will feel kind of pointless to
- 00:51:14introspect about old issues even if they
- 00:51:15were important the reason I'm so
- 00:51:17hyperfocused on jenz as opposed to
- 00:51:19Millennials or thinking about the future
- 00:51:20of gen a is because if the problems
- 00:51:22remain consistent and Lasting for future
- 00:51:24generations genz and Millennials of
- 00:51:26spring will be able to bomb with their
- 00:51:27parents over their shared upbringing
- 00:51:29jenzy was largely on their own and
- 00:51:31constantly watching constantly
- 00:51:32expressing constantly changing not from
- 00:51:35environment or experience but from
- 00:51:36social pressure before they even knew
- 00:51:38who they were or how the world worked
- 00:51:40jenz was the first to truly from the
- 00:51:42get-go experience this and had no one to
- 00:51:44relate to or give them advice I
- 00:51:46genuinely think there will never be a
- 00:51:47generation like this again because I
- 00:51:49don't think we will ever again
- 00:51:50underestimate how big an impact
- 00:51:52technology can have in just one
- 00:51:53generation that generation gap will
- 00:51:55likely never happen to this extent again
- 00:51:58everyone's pretty much aware of it now
- 00:51:59and everyone is adapting to these
- 00:52:00changes at the same time now people say
- 00:52:02we looked at the past with Nostalgia and
- 00:52:04Rose tinted glasses and while I agree
- 00:52:06with that generally I really vly
- 00:52:08disagree with that notion in this case
- 00:52:10every day I look at all of this and then
- 00:52:12I remember in my childhood I never saw
- 00:52:15any of this my whole adolescence I've
- 00:52:17slowly seen changes happen again and
- 00:52:19again and again having no real way to
- 00:52:21stop them and have no one to talk to
- 00:52:22about it because this generation is not
- 00:52:24just isolated from each other but from
- 00:52:26every other generation I endlessly react
- 00:52:28to changes I have no say in that have
- 00:52:30dramatically altered the psychology of
- 00:52:31my generation and will continue to do so
- 00:52:33it's changing rapidly pretty much every
- 00:52:35year and has since the
- 00:52:37mid-20s not to be over dramatic but I'm
- 00:52:39going to be over dramatic for a second I
- 00:52:41think there is a longing that anyone who
- 00:52:43grw up with his has that will stay with
- 00:52:44them till they die it may get repeated
- 00:52:47in the future to the point where it may
- 00:52:48seem almost redundant or absurd or
- 00:52:50cliche which is what if I
- 00:52:53didn't yes you're performing muscular
- 00:52:56movement with your hand as you're
- 00:52:57jerking off but what you're really doing
- 00:52:59I think is you're you're running a movie
- 00:53:01in your head you're having a fantasy
- 00:53:03relationship with somebody who is not
- 00:53:05real strictly to stimulate a
- 00:53:07neurological response so look as the
- 00:53:09internet grows in the next 10 15 years
- 00:53:11and virtual reality pornography becomes
- 00:53:13a
- 00:53:14reality we're going to have to develop
- 00:53:16some real Machinery inside our guts to
- 00:53:19turn off Pure unalo Pleasure or I don't
- 00:53:22know about you I'm going to have to
- 00:53:23leave the
- 00:53:24planet why because the technology is
- 00:53:27just going to get better and better and
- 00:53:29it's going to get easier and easier and
- 00:53:31more and more convenient and more and
- 00:53:33more pleasurable to sit
- 00:53:35alone with images on a screen given to
- 00:53:38us by people who do not love us but want
- 00:53:40our money and that's fine in low doses
- 00:53:44but if it's the basic main staple of
- 00:53:45your diet you're going to
- 00:53:48die well come on in a very meaningful
- 00:53:53way you're going to die to talk about
- 00:53:57where this is going we need to talk
- 00:53:58about qualia or more precisely the lack
- 00:54:00of qualia now qualia sounds like a
- 00:54:02cocktail from a Spanish bar but it's
- 00:54:04actually a quite deep hardto Define
- 00:54:05concept that you likely already know
- 00:54:07without the word in your vocabulary to
- 00:54:08describe it it's the raw feelings
- 00:54:11without the analysis or observations of
- 00:54:13living of feeling of sensing a common
- 00:54:16example to demonstrate it is biting into
- 00:54:18a bar of chocolate what does that feel
- 00:54:20like what is the texture like what
- 00:54:21feeling do you attach to it what
- 00:54:23emotions or memories does the taste of
- 00:54:24chocolate invoke for you personally the
- 00:54:27challenge arises when we attempt to
- 00:54:28articulate these sensory experiences how
- 00:54:30can you communicate what tasting
- 00:54:32chocolate is like without losing the
- 00:54:33qualia without losing the essence of the
- 00:54:35sensation you could use metaphors
- 00:54:37chocolate is like a symphony of
- 00:54:39sweetness each note a perfect harmony of
- 00:54:41cocoa and sugar it's a dance on the
- 00:54:42taste buds a Melody that wraps around
- 00:54:45the senses leaving behind a lingering of
- 00:54:47taste of joy you can subtract it down to
- 00:54:48its raw ingredients explain the process
- 00:54:50that led to it being manufactured into
- 00:54:52the product you see before you end up
- 00:54:54tasting you can break it down
- 00:54:55scientifically
- 00:54:56explain how the taste receptor cells and
- 00:54:58the taste buds respond to certain
- 00:54:59neurochemicals providing a sensation but
- 00:55:02that's not what tasting chocolate is
- 00:55:03like right it's similar to trying to
- 00:55:05explain what color is like color is a
- 00:55:07visual perception resulting from the way
- 00:55:09light interacts with objects sure that's
- 00:55:10not wrong but that's not how we
- 00:55:12experience color the redness of red the
- 00:55:14blue of blue the connotations we have in
- 00:55:16the senses when viewing these things
- 00:55:18describing the taste of chocolate or the
- 00:55:20sensation of seeing the color red can
- 00:55:22never truly convey the full richness or
- 00:55:24diversity of the experience no matter
- 00:55:25what metaphor for or analogy you use
- 00:55:27it's not a representation that can
- 00:55:29transmit the lived experience of
- 00:55:31sensation this carries over into other
- 00:55:33things like media similar to the
- 00:55:35question of do you think you understand
- 00:55:36tasting chocolate by descriptions of it
- 00:55:38if you watch Life do you think you have
- 00:55:40an accurate understanding of what it is
- 00:55:42like to live take Day in the Life videos
- 00:55:44they're trying to show their supposed
- 00:55:45day in the life even though they're
- 00:55:47talking to a camera setting up their
- 00:55:48camera making sure the lighting is good
- 00:55:50they're trying to convince the viewer
- 00:55:51that it's natural but it's not natural
- 00:55:53it's a performance trying to tell me
- 00:55:54it's not a performance it's more of a
- 00:55:56demonstration of routine than an actual
- 00:55:58daily ritual nothing about this is daily
- 00:56:00no one sets up their camera
- 00:56:02non-copyright stock music doesn't play
- 00:56:03when I make breakfast there's no jump
- 00:56:05cuts to all the interesting bits the
- 00:56:06very polished presentation contradicts
- 00:56:08the notion of an everyday experience and
- 00:56:10yet it's packaged and marketed as if it
- 00:56:12is one it doesn't matter how real or
- 00:56:14authentic it is in presentation it's
- 00:56:16fundamentally not your day in the life
- 00:56:18this also carries over into people take
- 00:56:20myself for example you could read all of
- 00:56:22my medical history learn about my
- 00:56:24education travel to every place I've
- 00:56:25ever been to speak to everyone who's
- 00:56:27ever met me no matter how much you read
- 00:56:29or see or hear fundamentally you don't
- 00:56:32know me no matter how good a description
- 00:56:34how beautiful a piece how detailed an
- 00:56:35artwork an illustration how stunning a
- 00:56:37video how great A Day in the Life video
- 00:56:40media and observation is a reflection of
- 00:56:42what it is like to live a reflection of
- 00:56:44who we are it is a creation of
- 00:56:45Consciousness but not a part of it it is
- 00:56:47a representation of qualia not qualia
- 00:56:49itself it doesn't have that cocktail
- 00:56:51from a Spanish bar what the am I saying
- 00:56:53the general thesis I've been building to
- 00:56:55this entire video is that jenzi has been
- 00:56:57socialized through media more than real
- 00:56:59life through reflections of qualia more
- 00:57:01than the Baseline qualia itself and this
- 00:57:03has built in alienation from their own
- 00:57:05Humanity I mentioned how language hasn't
- 00:57:07cot up to the problem itself and I have
- 00:57:09no idea how to actually articulate a
- 00:57:11solution because by the time I do this
- 00:57:14will probably be in my brain however I'm
- 00:57:16going to guess a few hypotheticals as AI
- 00:57:18becomes more and more intelligent it
- 00:57:20will most certainly make things easier
- 00:57:21and make society as a whole more
- 00:57:23efficient in numerous areas that will
- 00:57:24grow year to year but humans have to now
- 00:57:26compete with it in certain job markets
- 00:57:28we already have to deal with a very
- 00:57:29competitive schooling system and a new
- 00:57:31Korea navigation with people changing
- 00:57:33their jobs on a much more frequent basis
- 00:57:34than previously in recent history due to
- 00:57:36an increase in remote work economy
- 00:57:38changes and the after effect of being
- 00:57:40locked inside for 2 years compete is an
- 00:57:42interesting word to use in this case
- 00:57:43because in its meaning and established
- 00:57:44atmology it implies that there is a
- 00:57:46competition going on or an end
- 00:57:47destination achievement but AI isn't
- 00:57:50competing it's a tool a tool that will
- 00:57:51be used to replace the mundane and
- 00:57:52repetitive jobs regarding things like
- 00:57:54numeracy and diagnosis at least that was
- 00:57:57how it was advertised it is interesting
- 00:57:59that one of the first things to be
- 00:58:00threatened is Art and creation the
- 00:58:01expression of self there are now ai
- 00:58:03songs AI films AI videos AI social media
- 00:58:07accounts AI arguments AI discussions our
- 00:58:09ability to communicate to each other
- 00:58:11through symbols stories and Proverbs has
- 00:58:13now become clouded and distorted from
- 00:58:15our own creation that artificial element
- 00:58:17I talked about earlier of Modern Life
- 00:58:19imitating media which in of itself is a
- 00:58:21reflection which imitates life is going
- 00:58:22to become 10 times more weird when AI
- 00:58:25which is designed to analyze life can
- 00:58:26only do so through the reflection of
- 00:58:28media and binary data that has no actual
- 00:58:30basis of what it means to be alive like
- 00:58:32we do an AI can describe what a sunset
- 00:58:34feels like they can be very in-depth
- 00:58:36they can describe it with such a motive
- 00:58:38language that it really feels visceral
- 00:58:39even though it's just descriptions and
- 00:58:41narratives based on patterns and data
- 00:58:43but I can experience a sunset I can
- 00:58:45actually feel the warmth in vitamin D I
- 00:58:47can describe what the weather was like
- 00:58:49that day because it's an actual place
- 00:58:50and not just a narrative designed to
- 00:58:51imitate a place I could tell you how the
- 00:58:53day before impacted my mood and
- 00:58:55perceived feelings of the Sunset right
- 00:58:56now because I'm an actual person and not
- 00:58:58just an artificial speculation of one AI
- 00:59:01is only going to have depictions and
- 00:59:03information on sunsets no actual
- 00:59:04experiences or feelings attached to it
- 00:59:06its understanding of what living is like
- 00:59:08is completely divorced from qualia
- 00:59:10completely aliened from humanity and as
- 00:59:12our socialization becomes more digital
- 00:59:14and the digital becomes more artificial
- 00:59:16not only will we be socialized through
- 00:59:17media it will be through artificial
- 00:59:19media a Xerox of a Xerox a painting of a
- 00:59:22painting a demonstration of qualia done
- 00:59:24on mere descriptions of qualia the
- 00:59:26symbols we use will become symbols of
- 00:59:28symbols could you imagine asking a
- 00:59:30reflection of Christ to atone for your
- 00:59:32sins could you imagine falling in love
- 00:59:34with the recreation of someone's
- 00:59:36personality could you imagine connecting
- 00:59:38with an AI more than your fellow man
- 00:59:40because it's designed to be more
- 00:59:41agreeable understanding and cater to
- 00:59:43what you like these things often seem
- 00:59:45like far away objects that another
- 00:59:46generation will have to deal with later
- 00:59:48down the road much much farther than we
- 00:59:50are now but people would have said the
- 00:59:52same thing about all of our technology
- 00:59:53today as a demonstration for how fast
- 00:59:55all of this is moving I wrote a majority
- 00:59:57of this script with chat GPT 4 as the
- 00:59:59latest in AI advancement while I was
- 01:00:01writing it videos in particular were at
- 01:00:03their earliest stages and looked plain
- 01:00:04goofy unnatural and slightly unnerving
- 01:00:07but already video AI has progressed to
- 01:00:09the point where I showed some friends
- 01:00:10and family the new Sora model without
- 01:00:12telling them it was Ai and they acted
- 01:00:14confused as to why I was showing them a
- 01:00:16random video they couldn't tell it was
- 01:00:18AI yes if you analyze it slow it down
- 01:00:20you can see visual anomalies that are
- 01:00:22dead ringer but look at that progress in
- 01:00:23just one year it's not going to stop the
- 01:00:26these visual differences and
- 01:00:27discrepancies are going to become
- 01:00:28blurred until they become
- 01:00:29indistinguishable and again with fast
- 01:00:31information that's only getting faster
- 01:00:32who will hyper analyze everything they
- 01:00:34see to make sure that it's not AI people
- 01:00:36don't even do that nowadays with fake
- 01:00:37headlines out of context clips and
- 01:00:39phrases and are purposely shorten to
- 01:00:41understanding of each other the next bit
- 01:00:42of this video is just kind of tragically
- 01:00:44funny because right after I wrote all of
- 01:00:46this Sora came out and proved my point
- 01:00:48what I want to be remembered in the
- 01:00:50future is that in the entire time of the
- 01:00:52late 2010s and early 2020s there was
- 01:00:54this weird defensive y to admitting how
- 01:00:57fast all of this is moving and treating
- 01:00:59the future like an actual tangible
- 01:01:00reality I don't want that to ever be
- 01:01:02forgotten because I don't want it to
- 01:01:04ever happen again AI as it stands is
- 01:01:06almost like a Perfect Analogy and answer
- 01:01:08to people just saying put the phone down
- 01:01:10you can right now laugh at how obvious
- 01:01:11and floored AI is and for the
- 01:01:12foreseeable future it won't interfere
- 01:01:14with your day-to-day life if we just
- 01:01:16keep not supporting AI it may stunt its
- 01:01:18growth a bit and yes you can right now
- 01:01:19usually tell when something is made by
- 01:01:21AI it's in its baby stages but every now
- 01:01:23and then there's something that looks
- 01:01:25kind of real and that every now and then
- 01:01:27is going to happen more and more and
- 01:01:29more and while we can try to stunt its
- 01:01:31growth by not supporting it do you
- 01:01:32really think that corporations and
- 01:01:34industries won't switch to AI because
- 01:01:36people will backlash against it or
- 01:01:37because it's supposedly unethical as if
- 01:01:39that and that alone has ever stopped any
- 01:01:41cooporation ever from utilizing
- 01:01:43practices deemed by the wide public
- 01:01:45immoral and saying that it won't happen
- 01:01:46because it looks bad now is like saying
- 01:01:48to the R Brothers back in 1903 that yeah
- 01:01:50the plane is cool and all but it only
- 01:01:51manages to stay in the air for 59
- 01:01:53seconds if you see a new industry and
- 01:01:55conclude right now that it looks silly
- 01:01:57and then close the book in your mind on
- 01:01:58it growing simply due to its infancy
- 01:02:00stages and not the utility or potential
- 01:02:02of the practice itself you're
- 01:02:04shortsighted you could do that with any
- 01:02:06new form of technology or media this
- 01:02:07will never take off oh this will never
- 01:02:09take off oh this will never take off oh
- 01:02:12okay that was a bad joke point being
- 01:02:14it's obvious that this is here to stay
- 01:02:15and will just evolve YouTube themselves
- 01:02:17just recently came out in support of AI
- 01:02:19so YouTube just announced this whole new
- 01:02:22set of AI and editing tools that are
- 01:02:24going to revolutionize the platform
- 01:02:27making creation easier and more fun for
- 01:02:30everybody the aim is to unlock more
- 01:02:33creativity for more creators than ever
- 01:02:35before the most exciting part to me is
- 01:02:37that what was announced is supposedly
- 01:02:39just the beginning let's get into
- 01:02:42it okay first up let's talk about dream
- 01:02:45screen the new image and video
- 01:02:46generation experiment that's making its
- 01:02:48way to YouTube shorts powered by amazing
- 01:02:51AI technology dream screen lets you
- 01:02:53bring your imagination to Life by simply
- 01:02:55typing in ideas as text prompts it then
- 01:02:58generates super fun images and videos
- 01:03:00that you can use to set the scene all
- 01:03:02right let's see this in
- 01:03:06action I kind of don't want to leave
- 01:03:09this nice I'm not at all in favor of
- 01:03:11this as of hopefully communicated but
- 01:03:12I'm also not going to deny the reality
- 01:03:14of this situation it's not a question
- 01:03:15anymore of whether AI is going to be
- 01:03:17used when it's a ticking Time Bomb
- 01:03:18that's already begun I'd really like to
- 01:03:20say that this sucks for the heart of
- 01:03:22online creativity but online creation
- 01:03:23has already felt lifeless for so long I
- 01:03:25even now have a bit of nostalgia for the
- 01:03:27earlier internet a lot of the old
- 01:03:28internet was dumb irreverent and age
- 01:03:30like absolute milk but I infinitely
- 01:03:32prefer it to what it has become because
- 01:03:34it was mainly about having fun rather
- 01:03:35than exploiting psychology a part of me
- 01:03:37knows that as soon as it becomes popular
- 01:03:39without the social taboo AI is just
- 01:03:41going to slip into the content machine
- 01:03:42like a glove and as a negative this
- 01:03:44hollow feeling I get when looking at
- 01:03:46social media the past few years is just
- 01:03:48going to get worse because it will
- 01:03:49slowly become less and less human than
- 01:03:51it already is because it will literally
- 01:03:53be less human I think AI as a positive
- 01:03:55make the more passion filled projects
- 01:03:57stand out but the more cookie cutter and
- 01:03:59predictable will become even more cookie
- 01:04:00cutter and predictable but because
- 01:04:02people can't really do anything about it
- 01:04:03we're likely going to adapt to it this
- 01:04:06is the heart of the video and really the
- 01:04:07saddest thing about genen Z this is the
- 01:04:09true antithesis we are going to adjust
- 01:04:12to things we should not adjust to what
- 01:04:14was our strength for centuries the
- 01:04:15ability to adjust to any circumstance
- 01:04:17will in my opinion become our spiritual
- 01:04:19downall because if the 2010s and early
- 01:04:212020s are anything to go by corporations
- 01:04:24and algorithms will take advantage of us
- 01:04:25our social needs and our worries to
- 01:04:26profit off of us adapting to Nature
- 01:04:29climate and Circumstance has been our
- 01:04:30Saving Grace since our beginning again
- 01:04:32this unique ability Humanity has to
- 01:04:34adjust to suit the needs of its social
- 01:04:35environment has led us through Despair
- 01:04:37and Extinction but now we are adjusting
- 01:04:38to man-made environments artificial
- 01:04:41environments environments that are
- 01:04:43designed to exploit us from our
- 01:04:44identities to our insecurities to our
- 01:04:46desires from companies and people that
- 01:04:48don't care about us in the same way
- 01:04:49communities friends or families do and
- 01:04:51because technology is growing at such an
- 01:04:52unprecedented rate and has infected
- 01:04:54every part of our lives Commerce
- 01:04:56communication a place where everyone is
- 01:04:58constantly talking about events ranging
- 01:04:59from animals going extinct to what they
- 01:05:01ate for breakfast it's likely that no
- 01:05:03proper discussions will take hold over
- 01:05:04whether we should be doing this and
- 01:05:06we're just going to keep going down this
- 01:05:07road anyways being self-aware enough to
- 01:05:09recognize a problem and unable to affect
- 01:05:11the problem that powerlessness I talked
- 01:05:13about in my previous video knowing that
- 01:05:15no matter what you do or how you express
- 01:05:17it you can't stop it is horrible but
- 01:05:19what's even worse than that is knowing
- 01:05:20that the problem is going to get
- 01:05:21exponentially worse as time goes on and
- 01:05:23attempts to get away from it will all be
- 01:05:25futile time I could write my heart and
- 01:05:27soul into convincing argument about the
- 01:05:29way in which technology is ultimately
- 01:05:30bad for our spiritual and mental health
- 01:05:32and maybe a majority of people would
- 01:05:33even agree with me but it wouldn't
- 01:05:35change a thing and me being self-aware
- 01:05:36about it not changing a thing wouldn't
- 01:05:38change a thing if I actually gave advice
- 01:05:40that you should stop using technology or
- 01:05:42social media it' be bad advice as
- 01:05:43mentioned previously it is rapidly
- 01:05:45becoming such a disadvantage to be
- 01:05:47offline or disconnected and also would
- 01:05:49you or I even be able to do it in an
- 01:05:51actual meaningful way what is much more
- 01:05:53realistic advice is something along the
- 01:05:55lines of spend less time on your phone
- 01:05:56don't worry and be anxious about
- 01:05:58problems you can't fix but again that's
- 01:06:00individualistic basic General Health
- 01:06:02advice and while a good adjustment in
- 01:06:03this weird time we're living in it
- 01:06:04treats it like it's an individual
- 01:06:06problem of mindset and a problem that
- 01:06:07somehow is fixed in place but it's not I
- 01:06:10remember being told all throughout my
- 01:06:11youth that comparing yourself to people
- 01:06:13you see online particularly in beauty is
- 01:06:15unhealthy it was one of the few things
- 01:06:16early on with social media that adults
- 01:06:18actually covered well and with maturity
- 01:06:20in advising the youth and I think this
- 01:06:21is because the generation gap didn't
- 01:06:23actually occur here magazines and
- 01:06:25celebrities culture had already created
- 01:06:26idealized images of how the body should
- 01:06:28look like long before social media and
- 01:06:30if I was to go a bit further with this
- 01:06:32feeling insecure about the body is just
- 01:06:33a human trait I said all of this was
- 01:06:35unnatural earlier if I was to be more
- 01:06:38concrete and precise it is unnatural
- 01:06:40exploiting unnatural insecurities and
- 01:06:41desires and because the nature of modern
- 01:06:43man is a competition of Rapid adaptation
- 01:06:46truth and the basis of reality becomes
- 01:06:48something kind of irrelevant to the
- 01:06:49media socialized generation it doesn't
- 01:06:51matter that the fitness influencer is on
- 01:06:53steroids it doesn't matter that the
- 01:06:54Instagram model is using Photoshop all
- 01:06:56that matters is the presentation that is
- 01:06:58viewable why don't I look like that not
- 01:07:00only are they comparing themselves to
- 01:07:02unrealistic standards they are trying to
- 01:07:03meet those unrealistic standards while
- 01:07:05knowing that it's unrealistic I think
- 01:07:07this is because at the basis this is not
- 01:07:09a part of the human experience it's not
- 01:07:11meant to be there I'm not meant to deal
- 01:07:12with this but the fact that I'm not
- 01:07:13meant to is irrelevant because I am
- 01:07:16being alienated due to technology is not
- 01:07:17a mindset issue because we're adjusting
- 01:07:19to changes that purposely alienate us
- 01:07:21further and further given Replacements
- 01:07:23that can never replicate true sincerity
- 01:07:25Comm Community or love I stated in my
- 01:07:27previous video that despite what nishe
- 01:07:29said about people losing meaning people
- 01:07:30always want it and people always yearned
- 01:07:32for it signaling that they're not truly
- 01:07:33nihilistic or truly lost hope but rather
- 01:07:35have a ho of meaning that they can fill
- 01:07:37through exploration understanding and a
- 01:07:39deeper kind of connection it's hard to
- 01:07:41find a nihilist who is happy or content
- 01:07:42with being nihilistic though some exist
- 01:07:44most are looking for a sense of purpose
- 01:07:46and to find a solution to nihilism I
- 01:07:48think the problem actually mirrors media
- 01:07:49and Technology only that the problem is
- 01:07:51so much worse and so much more Lous and
- 01:07:53purposely isolating in the same way we
- 01:07:55need purpose and ideas on a personal
- 01:07:57level we need love and connection but
- 01:07:59because our technology is getting more
- 01:08:00comfortable we don't need to go out and
- 01:08:02get it we are being fed artificial again
- 01:08:04surrogate Replacements that are
- 01:08:05replacing our natural methods and are so
- 01:08:07much more validating so much easier so
- 01:08:09much less risk but also so much more
- 01:08:11binary so very lifeless and so Hollow
- 01:08:13feeling companies and influences can't
- 01:08:15really profit off of an existential
- 01:08:16despair but they can most definitely
- 01:08:18profit off of loneliness and a need for
- 01:08:20validation and purpose whether it's
- 01:08:21fulfilling any sexual desire you could
- 01:08:23ever have fulfilling any intellectual
- 01:08:25valid or sense of righteousness through
- 01:08:27seeing others put down or having content
- 01:08:28dedicated to stroke your ego it is
- 01:08:30designed to slowly become so intertwined
- 01:08:32to Identity and life that it becomes a
- 01:08:34vital part of it the only constant is
- 01:08:35change and I get that but these changes
- 01:08:37are so artificial and inorganic made
- 01:08:39completely for financial incentive and
- 01:08:41primarily affecting the most vulnerable
- 01:08:43group there is children I'm not saying
- 01:08:45AI will destroy ARS we know it I'm sure
- 01:08:47it'll open some floodgates and invite
- 01:08:48new methods of expression I'm not saying
- 01:08:50that the future is going to be a
- 01:08:51dystopia in which almost everyone is
- 01:08:52depressed it likely won't be that
- 01:08:54dramatic and usually never is I'm not
- 01:08:55saying that there's no positives to
- 01:08:57social media I've seen people make
- 01:08:58friends find love find our deepest sense
- 01:09:00of self and create and share some of the
- 01:09:01most interesting things Humanity has
- 01:09:03ever created the future probably will
- 01:09:05have new advancements in medicine and
- 01:09:06Science and we'll be able to understand
- 01:09:08more about our brains and chemistry
- 01:09:09perhaps be able to manipulate our bodies
- 01:09:11similar to the ways we've bended nature
- 01:09:12and natural resources to suit us I'm
- 01:09:14sure we will have breakthroughs that
- 01:09:15enable us to prevent and treat diseases
- 01:09:17potentially even eradicating certain
- 01:09:19ailments that have plagued Humanity for
- 01:09:20generations with a deeper understanding
- 01:09:22of genetics and biochemistry
- 01:09:23personalized medicine could become more
- 01:09:25common tailoring treatments to an
- 01:09:26individual's unique genetic makeup and
- 01:09:28health needs rather than from just
- 01:09:30observable symptoms and taught practice
- 01:09:32in a way that doctors today simply can't
- 01:09:34do with the tools available to them we
- 01:09:35could change Humanity until what it
- 01:09:37means to be human becomes something
- 01:09:38almost completely different from our
- 01:09:40presumed definitive understanding
- 01:09:42technology is undoubtedly our future but
- 01:09:45what are we losing in the process is it
- 01:09:46worth improving technology to the point
- 01:09:48where that which makes us human becomes
- 01:09:50a transaction or a learned process
- 01:09:52rather than an experience that is
- 01:09:53natural and grown between people what
- 01:09:56I'm saying is that feeling that
- 01:09:58disconnect the one of observing life
- 01:10:00rather than living it of seeing so much
- 01:10:01but processing so little having
- 01:10:03everything at your fingertips for
- 01:10:04feeling so reduced in choice is just
- 01:10:06going to keep happening because we've
- 01:10:08already adjusted to it well it won't be
- 01:10:09the end of the world it will be very
- 01:10:12very lonely to provide a larger succinct
- 01:10:14thesis Jen's unique oversocialization at
- 01:10:17least at this time is constantly
- 01:10:19adjusting to technology that isolates
- 01:10:21them with the methods of adaptation they
- 01:10:23Implement quickly being made obsolete by
- 01:10:25how FAS the technology they are adapting
- 01:10:26to changes they become outdated almost
- 01:10:29as soon as they're established this
- 01:10:30Perpetual state of flux leads to
- 01:10:32feelings of existential disorientation
- 01:10:34the result so far has been withdrawing
- 01:10:36into the self by introspection or
- 01:10:38self-improvement or escaping it all
- 01:10:40through said technology it's atomized
- 01:10:42even the supposed solution is even
- 01:10:44further atomization everything is about
- 01:10:46the
- 01:10:54self all
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