Do you think the hikikomori levels of introversion demonstrated by the younger generations is indicative of a decline in health? On the one hand, achieving mastery over a subject or a skill requires many hours spent in solitude and reflective, analytical minds tend to favour isolation. However, I think introversion is innate to these people and they're naturally the minority within a population. I suspect the overwhelming number of self proclaimed introverts nowadays are simply people who lack the energetic resource to be social which entails a certain level of stress- the stress of encountering different opinions, exerting empathetic effort and entering unpredictable situations (an energy investment if you will that eventually pays off) or are crippled by anxiety- another mental disorder that has become ubiquitous. I have noticed people have become increasingly introverted and closed off with time - the norm is to behave as if people around you, even people you live with, do not exist and there's an unspoken code that no one is owed warmth or acknowledgment
Considering people's general health is declining and they're becoming increasingly psychotic, I think there is something insidious about the many ways introversion is being encouraged. And cultivating introversion in people would put them on the fast-track to being effortlessly subdued with minimal resistance- a reclusive majority that has an obsession with their "me time" on the internet and has their reproductive needs completely satisfied by internet pornography is less likely to be exposed to information that hasn't been manipulated/filtered by the internet, will be less inclined to encounter differing or non-mainstream opinions and exchange ideas with others in private rather than on monitored apps, will not attempt to oppose or overthrow authority and will struggle to maintain a positive birth rate. The sheer amount of people I have encountered who proclaimed to me that lockdowns were a blessing in disguise for them because they were doing that already anyway because they're introverts is what set me off on this train of thought
This idea has been on my mind for a long time though and started forming in my head when I noticed that the worse my health got, the deeper my introversion became. I dreaded meeting with friends but once I did, I felt energised and my health was much improved after being social for a few hours.
Considering people's general health is declining and they're becoming increasingly psychotic, I think there is something insidious about the many ways introversion is being encouraged. And cultivating introversion in people would put them on the fast-track to being effortlessly subdued with minimal resistance- a reclusive majority that has an obsession with their "me time" on the internet and has their reproductive needs completely satisfied by internet pornography is less likely to be exposed to information that hasn't been manipulated/filtered by the internet, will be less inclined to encounter differing or non-mainstream opinions and exchange ideas with others in private rather than on monitored apps, will not attempt to oppose or overthrow authority and will struggle to maintain a positive birth rate. The sheer amount of people I have encountered who proclaimed to me that lockdowns were a blessing in disguise for them because they were doing that already anyway because they're introverts is what set me off on this train of thought
This idea has been on my mind for a long time though and started forming in my head when I noticed that the worse my health got, the deeper my introversion became. I dreaded meeting with friends but once I did, I felt energised and my health was much improved after being social for a few hours.
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