Natural and artificial congitive limits
The current state of informational field makes impact as we speak. In the situation of overproduction of scattered fragmented association chains the mind of an average user, ten to one cause failures. The very ability to perceive information becomes shapeless and suppresses a splendid element of curiosity - a wish to dig deeper. Continual scrolling and snatching of the separated short* messages turns reading into stuffing head with information.
* SMS length was institutionalized in 1991 through completely inhuman reasons, later adopted by twitter
It is easy to distinguish inequalities between “hunt down a question” and “satisfy information hunger”. Instead of developing a new mind autonomy the user of our clipped content distribution system develops a habit for monotonous acts. In the course of time, reaching limits of operative memory leads to appearance of BSOD: “can’t read the feed any more, it’s time to do anything else”. Blue screen of the human organism gets called by hormonal regulation system, which is not so easy to disobey.
That's why it is really hard to convince any non-advanced user to use modern tools like #steemit. Or it is even way more harder for advanced users to use some new and not so much applied yet blockchain. There is too much of them and mostly it's a scum!
The most unpleasant among this dump that the digital media space is not a system of self consistent information. Rather, an internal tension of each of a contentoholic’s mindset rises exponentially and inevitably leads to emotional death - “it makes no difference to me”. For now on, one looses a possibility to be touched emotionally by reality, we’ve already looked through its most shocking faces. The amount of controversial information about life make us indifferent to its flow.
Moreover, the question of resistance isn’t raising long ago. Simplification of access to information suppresses natural challenging mechanism of psychic. In the world where you can reach any answer within 3 minutes, passion for learning is deprived of its motivation power. But literally this very passion of one village lad* make him to come Moscow just following a middle age fish delivery transport.
*Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, founder of Moscow State University
Lomonosov noticed: "There is always a know-nothing person, who can ask more questions, then can the wisest answer". The common methods of the modern info-wars contain this thrilling trick. And they are critically destructive to our mind and truth awareness. It is completely legal and wide-applied mental violence to all of us which mostly used by the governments and the corporations behind them. There is no humanity reasons here. This type of war is an offensive practice against the whole our civilization.
As any poison, the information develops its own using culture. Aggregation and personification of content creates a methodological field opposed to the chaotic knowledge. But without a responsible participation of a critical thinking user, such tools will be useless. Considering the analogy to poisons - practically all of them occupy a special place in religious cults, functioning in the open philosophical discourses. A need for mass awareness about these everliving elements of perception and ethics maintenance, eliminating inexplicit violent (viral) informational influence - the only way to preserve the priority of human mind over it's most wondering product - artificial intellect.