/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19366242]

Any books/articles/studies on the possible damage caused to individuals by internet/social media addiction? You know, how it's bad for mental health/attention spans etc.

[Anonymous No.19366272]

>>19366242
>free book
>it's a bunch of ya crap and junk food literature

>free wifi
>get to read any digitized book or essay on the face of the earth

Hmmmm

[Anonymous No.19366289]

>>19366272
Why do you have this vid?

[Anonymous No.19366296]

>>19366289
DECLINE OF THE WEST

[Anonymous No.19366301]

>>19366242
Reddit reads more and writes more than 4chan ever will.

[Anonymous No.19366311]

>>19366289
Because I want to fuck that brown catboy in the ass

[Anonymous No.19366331]

>>19366272
This clip combines despair and hope in a way that I'm incapable of comprehensively addressing in the written medium

[Anonymous No.19366344]

>>19366331
Where is the hope?

[Anonymous No.19366357]

free books = some books
free wi-fi = all books

[Anonymous No.19366367]

>>19366331
It makes me hopeful to see that kids are still being goofy and enjoying life despite the mask mandates.
I wore black lipstick and dressed like a freak sometimes in school. I got over it.

[Anonymous No.19366373]

>>19366367
>>19366344
It's a room full of troons. There's no nope here.

[Anonymous No.19366379]

>>19366373
>It's a room full of troons
>There's no nope here
Freudian slip, eh?

[Anonymous No.19366382]

>>19366373
>the most powerful empire to ever exist on on earth produces mestizos femboys en masse
Is this Nietzsche's ubermensche?

[Anonymous No.19366387]

>>19366373
They're just going with the flow. If wearing purple shirts was in, they'd all wear purple shirts. Don't you remember what it was like?

[Anonymous No.19366393]

>>19366387
Ni because I wasn't a conformist faggot.
Also the fact that decadence is 'in' is pretty harmful to the social organism.

[Anonymous No.19366396]

Shut the fuck up and post what OP asked

[Anonymous No.19366398]

>>19366396
Shut the fuck up nigger

[Anonymous No.19366401]

>>19366379
A typo isn't a Freudian slip you pseud

[Anonymous No.19366402]

>>19366396
we are.

[Anonymous No.19366407]

>>19366387
I remember hating everything about everyone I was forced to interact with, which is just as performative, and hating myself most of all. Still do. The pendulum isn't swinging back in my lifetime, I've accepted that.
>>19366379
Hilarious.

[Anonymous No.19366412]

>>19366393
>>19366407
Oh right, you guys were the rebels!
lol, so cute, I miss those days.

[Anonymous No.19366439]

>>19366242
Read "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.

It was written in 1985 about TV, but it can just as easily apply to the internet.

Postman's argument is not that television (or the internet in this case) is filled with "junk," but rather that it shifts priorities and makes people less knowledgable about the world.

An example he gives is that people never would have recognized the first fifteen or so U.S. presidents if they were out walking on the streets because they were known mostly through their writings.

He also cites the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. He says that these debates each lasted like seven hours at a time and that people nowadays wouldn't be able to sit through them because of television. The two debaters were using highly grammatical sentences which required a good attention span.

[Anonymous No.19366467]

Digital Minimalism by C. Newport considers some research
most of the books on this topic are in the self help and health categories

[Anonymous No.19366473]

>>19366439
From Wikipedia: "The names of presidents or even famous preachers, lawyers, and scientists call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, of their words come to mind. ***The few that do almost exclusively consist of carefully chosen soundbites.***"

Basically Twitter in a nutshell lmao

[Anonymous No.19366489]

>>19366439
>He also cites the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858
That's pretty interesting, you've sparked my interest in this book again. I tried to read it a while ago but could only get thrugh the introductory chapter until getting bored and switching to vidya.

[Anonymous No.19366517]

>>19366489
It actually becomes easier to read after the theory of the first several chapters.

He gives a lot of examples that you may be familiar with such as Ronald Reagan's stardom, William F. Buckley Jr.'s show Firing Line, etc.

[Anonymous No.19367375]

>>19366412
Yes I am SIGMA

[Anonymous No.19367473]

>>19366296
lmao, somehow this is always the answer when someone posts without elaboration a strange panning clip of people doing nothing noteworthy

[Anonymous No.19367489]

>>19366473
This; people retained just as little information back then as they do now.
If people were more informed and involved back then it's because they had nothing better to do AND had less pointless, draining bullshit cluttering their lives.

[Anonymous No.19367704]

>>19366382
What the fuck is going on in this image. Holy shit is this what theyre hiding in the pedo cult sex dungeon? Or does this spoiled brat just get everything he asks for and buys whatever people argue about?

[Anonymous No.19368205]

>>19366401
it is

[Anonymous No.19368289]

>>19366401
Retard

[Anonymous No.19369210]

>>19366272
I really don't know what the solution to this shit is, if you start beating these kids for 'being gay' that wont work, meanwhile theyre spreading their ideas about how to be to other kids

How do we as a society remain free to make our own mistakes while stopping the spread of this feminized weakness? I dont want my son to turn out like this...

[Anonymous No.19369233]

>>19366272
impressive though that he/they(?) got such a developed style still in school. everyone else is h&m with reebok classics

[Anonymous No.19369238]

>>19369210
Immigrate a third world country where masculine culture still survives, while third worlders are immigrating into countroes where feminine culture is dominating. Think about it. The third worlders will be feminized on first world grounds, while the first worlders will be masculinized on third world grounds. And since weak nations fall and strong nations dominate, the first and third worlds will switch hierarchies if this happens.

[Anonymous No.19369246]

>>19369238
that is such a stupid thing to say

[Anonymous No.19369251]

>>19369246
You can either be stupid or you can have troons for kids. The choice is yours. Which way, White man?

[Anonymous No.19369254]

>>19369251
the kids will be okay

[Anonymous No.19369258]

>>19369254
There's a fine line between optimism and idle cowardice. Your kids will not be OK, not in the first world.

[Anonymous No.19369262]

>>19369210
There is no solution, the end is near

[Anonymous No.19369270]

>>19369258
he's happy the way he looks he's happy with his gender. see no damage, see no evil at all

[Anonymous No.19369277]

>>19369270
>he's happy
> see no damage, see no evil
Anon....I

[Anonymous No.19369279]

>>19369254
>>19369270
If you ever have a daughter she'll end up being a druggie who'll let random strangers run a train on her to get drug money

[Anonymous No.19369288]

>>19369279
i'm sorry, you're opinion means very little to me

[Anonymous No.19369336]

>>19366242
here ya go

[Anonymous No.19369392]

>>19366242
The Shallows. Appropriately the book itself is very shallow

[Anonymous No.19370030]

>>19366272
>>19366296
If that's how the decline of the West looks like, then we need to accelerate it.

[Anonymous No.19370036]

>>19370030
lol

[Anonymous No.19370039]

The best book on this subject may still be Amusing Ourselves To Death.

[Anonymous No.19370063]

>>19366387
No I have always done the opposite of what the other kids did. Was always contrarian from the start.

[Anonymous No.19370076]

>>19366272
I hate the government so much it's unreal.

[Anonymous No.19370087]

>>19366517
How do i get through such books btw? Should i just power through until i can jump on the ride of their train of thought?

[Anonymous No.19370116]

>>19366242
>be given internet
>ignore the wealth of books available through it
>use twitter
Take responsibility for your laziness, OP.

[N E M O . !!GgBWHLRiayD No.19370229]

>"Recreational drugs/reading/the internets runied my life."

[Anonymous No.19370266]

>>19370116
>>19370229
Who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.19370268]

>>19370063
And that's why you were the last one to lose his virginity

[Anonymous No.19370270]

>>19370116
Your first mistake is assuming it's a personal thing, that I'm addicted myself, or "lazy" in your words, and not just interested in the topic.

[Anonymous No.19370281]

>>19369210
There is no solution. It's just kids doing kid things. The Critical Theory nonsense is what you should worry about, rather than the usual faggotry that comes with childhood.

[Anonymous No.19370282]

>>19370281
Shut the fuck up and make your own thread.

[Anonymous No.19370291]

>>19370282
He says in a thread asking for articles of older gen whining about technology ruining the attention spans of newer gens. Fine, I'll oblige. Here's a list of people of old bitching about the same thing over and over and over again
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52209/15-historical-complaints-about-young-people-ruining-everything

[Anonymous No.19370293]

>>19370270
Listen, faggot, you opened a thread with a loaded question and a trite boomer comic: you were asking to be insulted.

[N E M O . !!GgBWHLRiayD No.19370312]

>>19370266

The default monological distillate of disintegral individuals.

[Anonymous No.19371201]

>>19366393
Good for you Peer pressure is brutal as a teen.

[Anonymous No.19371263]

>>19370291
Damn we've been faggots since the dawn of civilization it seems. Good to know I wasn't crazy in thinking people are overreacting especially with all the faggot stuff that happened back in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.19371273]

>>19371263
We've been glorious faggots since the dawn of time. The only thing that's really changed is the mediums in which we can express our faggotry