Conformism and Mass behaviour
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The development of the means of communication shows that people are feeling and getting more alone and lonely, and have increased values in the incidence of mental deceases like depression and anxiety.
The Millennial Generation has the largest number ever seen in history in depression and anxiety disorders than in any past generation.
The actual Millennial's second cause of death is suicide and psychological instability.
People psychological profiles are becoming more conservative, less self-reliant, more conformist, and opportunist but at the same time, but most of the people today are less audacious to challenge authority and dogmas, less involved in changing the world and themselves.
Millennials evaluate the social component of face-to-face, but virtual communication is increasing and creating a lot "room-people" that avoid human contact on the supposition that they will reduce the anxiety of facing and be aware of reality.
Millennials on the other way are using technology for self-adaptation in the future and learning in new different ways from past generations and they prefer videos as the main fountain for personal change and learning, to substitute for old paper manuals and books, and they like memes as a way to spread messages.
Virtual social networks communities are not a way out of solitude but it just increases and closes people in the self-centered aseptic screen relationship.
Millennials, the "selfie generation" are often seen by past generations as lazy, self-centered and narcissistic, because they are living in a changing world where "the gates" of the centralized economy are closed to them and have nowhere else to go.
On the other hand, they suffer from the problem of the classic educational solution as a "trauma", as this generates more and more debt, which before the beginning of life will be uncomfortable with incomes and few opportunities.
The School has increasingly a normalizing and indoctrination profile and seems less and less capable of providing adaptive and practical knowledge for the troubled reality of the future.
The blockchain world is an emerging possibility for them to find new "doors" that can create conditions to reveal their abilities.
This makes them have relationships that are easily broken, where the other person is always in risk of being a "dischargeable product", based in a false mirror of the search for happiness, that has a consequence because every day people are becoming less intolerant, empathetic, sympathetic, and the search for happiness is constantly a new possibility of finding it, like a made merchandise.
The generation after the Millennials
Frightening are the symptoms seen today for the next generation succeeding the Millennials that are showing symptoms like the game "Blue Whale" that is getting a very popular game.It was originated in Russia and spread all over the world with its 500 levels of difficulty going from seeing forbidden videos to self-mutilation, hyper risk behaviors terminating in an invitation to suicide.
This is connected with recent data showing the increasing behavior of self-mutilation, self-injuries, and self-burning, with some incidence on girls and in the age of 15-16 years old.
The increasing feeling of fear of not being understood by their parents and they are not following their expectations, and this attitude is strange to my generation of the "baby-boom-freak-tripping" society, that had the goal of breaking off with all patterns of behavior of their parents, ancestors, and rulers, always feeling guilt-free about it.
The alarming growth numbers of and spread of mental illness or what I will call "ontological(self) insecurity" is co-related with the accelerated growth of knowledge and technology leading to more psychic instability with a basis in the parallel decadence of their parents multi-relationships, resulting in uni-parenting or multiple step-mothers and step-fathers.
This factor increases the level of safety and unconsciously generates a sense of rejection because children whenever parents separate they always feel like the culprits of these problems.
The problem is that some young people identify themselves with the "Little Men" with a gun in their hands, everybody is getting despotic in their character as a way to find happiness with "security" and they even like to feel the state over fucking their privacy.
New problems are emerging with the craziness of some leaders like Trump that to increase sales of the gun lobby, wants to put professors playing cowboy duel games in the classroom in the name of avoiding attacks in schools.
One Message for Steemit
If the Human Value is not on top of the pyramid of the Steemit strategy, always commanding over the Money Value I know that on the long run it will always mean the death of Steemit.Steemit can be the sanctuary of the citizens that will become de Media in the Future, as decentralized reporters close to Reality that will replace the Mainstream Media that represent the centralized structures interests.
And to end here I leave a thought about Steemit and the current problem of rewards associated with bad content that is generated by contract and that in the long run devalue the platform, because its mission is no to be a casino nickel machine.
"Big rewards in worthless content is like the existential vacuum of winning a honeypot that does not have honey at all."
In the systems change alchemy, Matter is fed by Spirit not the other way round.
It's Human Spirit that makes Matter "significant" and "meaningful".
"Human Value" is the first and last determinant of Steem Value and the blockchained communities.
Good content is generated "Human Value" as good insights for changing people or reality and Humanity.
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