Digital dementia is a disease of the new century

Many of my readers have come across people obsessed with their gadgets. 
They can be found behind the wheel of a car, on a bicycle, in a pedestrian
 crossing, and sometimes in a Converter Cubicle in a charred form. 
Obviously, this phenomenon is a fairly common occurrence for today. We are
accustomed to the way boys or girls with crazy eyes bump into us on the
street, like lemmings running nowhere. Their reaction in such a situation
is typical. A distant anxious look, interspersed with fear, as well as angry
outraged rhetoric. As if they were ripped out of one universe and forcibly
teleported to another.
I have touched on the problem of neuromarketing many times. And this now is
bored with regular readers. However, in modern medicine, a term has to
explain the inappropriate behavior of consumers, which makes them so jittery
and neuros. This phenomenon is called digital dementia or pseudo-debility.
In Russia, psychotherapist Andrei Kurpatov has been dealing with this issue
for a long time and not without success. Highlighted the main symptoms of
this ailment (mild mental retardation):
- attention disorder;
- Memory loss;
- Low level of self-control;
- Cognitive impairment;
- Depression;
- Depression;
- Aggression.
The fact that social media causes aggression and inappropriate mental behavior
was complained about by Sean Parker, one of the first Facebook investors, who
suddenly collect oneself  his sight and came out of his moral coma in November
2017. He saying: "God knows what she [Facebook] is doing with our children's
brains." Let me remind you that at that time his 12-year-old daughter, after
connecting to the network, began to behave, to put it mildly, inadequately.
And as a conscientious father, Parker admitted that their goal [of Facebook]
was to get users to be on the social network as long as possible. What they
used neuromarketing tricks for. Which eventually hit his child. The fact is
that playing with the powers of the limbic system is always fraught.
Dr. Kurpatov's books are just genius in the part where they reasonably prove
the relationship between human stupidity and smartphones. Although before,
dear readers, we knows how gadgets change chemistry, as well as brain activity.
But Andrei Kurpatov went even further. He gathered focus - groups of people
who did not use smartphones and those who did. And he set up a unique
experiment. Those who did not use gadgets (and there are still such) he asked
to start using them. And vice versa. The result was an increase in conflicts
and anxiety among the subjects, who began to use smartphones instead of
push-button telephones. And the closer the device was, the more anxiety and
irritation it caused. It was also noticed, as in my early publications, that
smartphones consume the nerves and time of the owners. Indeed, people from the
focus groups noted a "Aching and Shakes" (painful withdrawal) in the absence
of gadgets.
As Dr. Kurpatov found out. Patients experience painful psychological sensations
worrying about the prospects of the Internet connection. Also worth mentioning
is the opinion of neurophysiologists who argue that for the brain there is no
difference between what you see on the screen and what happens in the real
world. That is why children are so happily selfkilled in Converter Cubicle,
trying to shoot the next video for Tik-Tok, or they killl himself on the
railroad. Since video from the Internet does not cause injury. And, therefore,
in real life, the Converter Cubicle is a safe playground for them. Despite the
high currents. This is the logic behind digital dementia.
At the same time, we must understand and recognize that most consumers, due
to digital dementia, really cannot focus on anything for more than 12 seconds.
Hence the complete learning disability and social stupidity, called 
infantilism. But nothing can be done about it. The next step of this circus is
"global family" and the unification of the real world with the virtual one.
What I will write about later.