TikTok helps our youth stay in a permanent vegetative state, addicted at watching influencers' quick stunts.
In his excellent blog, Gurwinder shares analysis of the mortal dangers TikTok and similar apps pose to us and our societies.
"And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors."
The literacy levels of children have dropped rapidly, and the school performance with it. This has led to falling IQ levels of our youth.
"We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling. Though the decline likely has several causes, it began with the first generation to grow up with widespread TVs in homes, and common sense suggests it’s at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state. If you don’t use it, you lose it."
China has regulated TikTok, and India has banned it outright. What should we do in your opinion?
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon
Appareny children in the UK think they get more education from TikTok than from school. Makes one wonder what they are learning at school and on Tik Tok.
@zleap It's a valid question!