(rant) Exhausting brain fog replies

[rhythmsoundmotion]

I am getting frustrated/concerned with what feels like replies written from brain-fogged individuals.
-Almost verbatim repetition of canned, generally accepted online viewpoints.
-No sharing of personal experience.
-No consideration of implications.
-Low to no consideration of the original post in the thread.
-Low to no consideration of previously written posts from the same thread.
Now I am perfectly happy to ignore such brain-fogged posts, but it does worry me that people are not engaging with their minds.

 

[Morrus]

What would you like us to do with this information?

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

(Ban everyone, just kidding)
I know there is nothing to do (or maybe nothing I can think of.)
My mother-in-law is suffering from a worsening onset of dementia. So maybe I am seeing the symptoms of dementia everywhere?

 

[Joshua Randall]

Welcome to the Internet.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I am getting frustrated/concerned with what feels like replies written from brain-fogged individuals.
-Almost verbatim repetition of canned, generally accepted online viewpoints.
-No sharing of personal experience.
-No consideration of implications.
-Low to no consideration of the original post in the thread.
-Low to no consideration of previously written posts from the same thread.
Now I am perfectly happy to ignore such brain-fogged posts, but it does worry me that people are not engaging with their minds.

Sory to hear about your mother-in-law, I nursed my mother to her end with dementia, and it can be very tough to live with.
The thing is: none of this is new. It has been going on for years, at least most of my lifetime and beyond. In the past it was often the form of provocative headlines in the more unscrupulous newspapers where the headline did not match the story.
The headline was a form of clickbait to encourage someone seeing it at the newsstand buying it to read that article.
Such headlines often completely overshadowed the reading of the article so that may upon reading came away with a view not justified by the content of the article. Any many newspapers and their owners used such to generate a sense of outrage to further particular agendas.
All this in an age where people had at most a couple of TV/radio stations and/or newspapers to gain news from.

In the current era the diversity of sources of information and points of view has multiplied almost beyond comprehension.
We also receive more information in short audio/visual snippets with little context (mansplaining had some utility - in my day they were called bores). It is my view that increasing reliance on audiovisual information dissemination reduced our reading comprehension and concentration.
So, nothing new but vastly amplified by current social and technological trends and we are living with the consequences of some of these trends.

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

Sory to hear about your mother-in-law, I nursed my mother to her end with dementia, and it can be very tough to live with.
The thing is: none of this is new. It has been going on for years, at least most of my lifetime and beyond. In the past it was often the form of provocative headlines in the more unscrupulous newspapers where the headline did not match the story.
The headline was a form of clickbait to encourage someone seeing it at the newsstand buying it to read that article.
Such headlines often completely overshadowed the reading of the article so that may upon reading came away with a view not justified by the content of the article. Any many newspapers and their owners used such to generate a sense of outrage to further particular agendas.
All this in an age where people had at most a couple of TV/radio stations and/or newspapers to gain news from.

In the current era the diversity of sources of information and points of view has multiplied almost beyond comprehension.
We also receive more information in short audio/visual snippets with little context (mansplaining had some utility - in my day they were called bores). It is my view that increasing reliance on audiovisual information dissemination reduced our reading comprehension and concentration.
So, nothing new but vastly amplified by current social and technological trends and we are living with the consequences of some of these trends.

It's probably a leap to consider the effects of what you are describing (and I agree with) to a link in cognitive abilities, but it certainly makes my next car trip a horrifyingly suspenseful trip

 

[Nikosandros]

I don't have much to contribute to this thread, apart from confirming that I'm personally severely brain-fogged.

 

[rhythmsoundmotion]

What would be the cure for this kind of brain fogged thinking?
-Awareness seems ineffective. Or people hear about these issues, agree that it is happening, and then act the same way.
-Confronting people seems ineffective. It's seen as an attack and not an observation.
-Presenting material that stretches seems ineffective. They will disengage and go back to their comfort zone.

 

[TiQuinn]

What would be the cure for this kind of brain fogged thinking?
-Awareness seems ineffective. Or people hear about these issues, agree that it is happening, and then act the same way.
-Confronting people seems ineffective. It's seen as an attack and not an observation.
-Presenting material that stretches seems ineffective. They will disengage and go back to their comfort zone.

Your best bet is to use your ignore list because honestly, you have zero way of knowing whether there is a medical issue, language barrier, or whether the poster is simply posting an incomplete thought, and regardless of the reason, there’s little action on your part that you can take to change it. At the end of the day, all you can do is control your reaction to them.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

What would be the cure for this kind of brain fogged thinking?
-Awareness seems ineffective. Or people hear about these issues, agree that it is happening, and then act the same way.
-Confronting people seems ineffective. It's seen as an attack and not an observation.
-Presenting material that stretches seems ineffective. They will disengage and go back to their comfort zone.

Time outs, I think, not that I am the best at it, I am as a prone to doomscrolling as anyone but time off the sensory input, more exercise and more long form reading. Comprehension is as much practise as anything else.