Writer, academic, and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, speaks of a phenomenon that specifically affects technologically advanced postmodern societies (The West; Europe included, but mainly, USA).

Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins.

Academics and writers who contribute to hyperreality theory state that corporations and tech giants have financial incentive to create a false reality that is to be consumed as if it were real.

Social media has become the dominant reality. Social media and digital representations used to mimic life. Life now mimics social media.

The dangers of hyperreality are also facilitated by information technologies, which provide tools to dominant powers that seek to encourage it to drive consumption and materialism.

Hyperreality tricks consciousness into detaching from any real emotional engagement, instead opting for artificial simulation, and endless reproductions of fundamentally empty appearance.

Can things get better? or is it too late for America?

its too late for the whole world man

experience of the world outside of the internet now exists only as a memory in your consciousness as zoomers grow up as a deworlded entity removed from the context of all locality and concrete existence within a particular world horizon, being accelerated to lightspeed, which as Einstein famously pointed out, causes time to stop, flattens objects into two dimensionality and confers upon them infinite mass. on the Internet we are all flattened, made into instantaneous entities and are colliding with one another like particles in a particle accelerator

yeah s***s f***ed

kids now a days are growing up with extreme social media expectations. it’s f***ing their brains up 100%

I hate doomers so much

Y’all gotta watch the documentary

Hypernormalisation

You know you allowed to go outside tho

And do what? Record my life for my snapchat story or take cool pics for my Instagram feed

Wtf no just go out get a sandwich, go fishing I literally did it the other day

we must see the void to reject it

stick your head even deeper into the sand then

no, it's never too late

No. I've tried a few times

We lost

Invictus

Then don’t use social media?

i had a four hour conversation with someone the other day and it took more out of me and gave me back more than an infinite amount of online interactions ever could

No

I was thinking about this this the other day, I think technology enables world's not defied by physical to exist, which makes it possible for people to form there "realities" around non euclidean space.

Metaphysical world's in which people can form there beliefs off of.

Which is why I was saying technology will enable religion long term rather than kill it.

It enables art forms to transcend the boundaries of physical space and be something different and increasingly immersive.

If you look at how art derives art from itself and how worldviews are formed based off it it, I think that is an inevitable but not something that should be "feared".

I think technology is innately biological and it's evolution will coincide with the evolution of life itself, or it will just be a progression of life itself. As life is constantly molding to fit the needs of the environment that it occupies survival of species (if that is the main crux of life) will continue and art and philosophy (the attempt at understanding life will persist).

The form that occurs in is irrelevant as generational change will and does negate fears within coming generations.

So no, there is no way out, but I think everything will be "ok" regardless.

Yeah observing digital sociology means you're a doomed right

great movie

There is a way out

Think the influence social media has on children is overstated
If these kids are going to the same public schools and universities we went to their still gonna experience the same things we did with a bit more depth