Worlds apart, united in anthropocentrism (together the ruin of the earth)

[matrixmann]

You know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.

So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.

To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.

If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).

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[matrixmann]

Speaking from the point of neuronal development (how a brain wires itself internally and how brain structures come into existing), this playing around with computers most of the time since a very young age is highly toxic for the brain. Because the kids don't do other activities instead which would demand all of their 5 senses.
Input via all the 5 senses is what makes cognitive intelligence come into existing at all and then keeps feeding it, making it grow.
The computers are like an impoverished environment to learn things in - and that's why later they're so dumb, naive and immature as personalities as one already experiences it these days.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

“Because the kids don't do other activities instead which would demand all of their 5 senses.”
Well, yes, there is nothing to speak about here – to sit before the computer all day long is very harmful as for brain as for body but in Russia is prohibited to not let children to go to school and our primary school system is still working. So, our children are not that much useless as they could be and again, it is in our parents strengths to stop using phones at school at all…
I am afraid more about the modern Western youngsters, which when they leave the primary school and are getting free to take their own decisions, are getting fast an addiction to weeds (as a better scenario), getting more easy work to do without any brain activity and as a routine on an everyday basis - after working day are sitting at home before a monitor smoking drugs – all what school has given to their brains could disappear in several years… Look how American youngsters – the country which was long very loyal to drugs and had been legalizing drugs recently, so how youngsters of USA are dumb at masses… it is an unbelievable work to produce such stupid idiots when you have TV and Internet and you are free to educate yourself… Just compare nowadays information access situation to some times hundreds years ago, for example, people were not having books and had not ability to read and anyway, here we are…

Yes, of course, I have to think about myself first but anyway, when I am watching some USA interviews where young strangers are asked different simple question, I always wonder – what the heck with you people…

[matrixmann]

Over here, there is a formal duty to send you kids to school too, for a least 9 or 10 years (back when I was still in school it was 9 years, now it might have increased for an additional year because there's barely any use in the economy for people who have only their school certificate from the 9th grade. - But, mind you, education is a matter of the federal states here, so things can vary from Bundesland to Bundesland. And - 9/10 years of school don't have to mean you leave school with a graduation certificate. It only says "9/10 years of school", not that these must have been enough to get you into a year where graduation takes place.)

But, in the previous years, the agenda of "digitization" (Digitalisierung) more and more forces its ways into school, so that even school kids more have to do with computers than without - and guess what happens if you have kids who know how to play with a device, but the teacher is as digitally competent as a loaf of toast... Nothing good results from that.
Additionally, parents who have done their best effort to keep their children away from media and playing up until this point, their work gets thrown into the trash can.
Needless to say - teens/youngsters who have no interest in all that computerized stuff, maybe are from a rural area and enjoy their environment full of nature, those are fucked too. Because they have to deal with something in order for good grades which naturally isn't something they're good at and neither want to be good at.

Just saying - I remember, the last 2 years of high school, where they handed out a special calculator with graphics display capabilities on loan to all the students in these last two (senior) years because it was mandatory. (It was exactly this thing here: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00012BF9M/)
In the end, a lot of students had many kinds of games from about the Gameboy area on it. Snake, Super Marioa, Tetris... (Mine only contained Tetris.) As the graphic capabilities of the machine were ca. at the height of the Gameboy.
And that already was as much as 15 years ago, even before smartphones existed.
...That's what I would think also happened if students get a lot of tablet computers and laptops from their school as "material needed for the classes".

I think there already were some other people which put it pretty nicely: Humans have all the types of different technology to become professors, each of them, but, through the wrong style they're using these technologies, they make it to degrade themselves to the cognitive niveau of apes.