Spiritual filth is real
The Guardian newspaper on May 8, 2018 released the material
"Social media copies gambling methods to create psychological
cravings". In which the creators of this product are directly
accused of methods of influencing the psyche. Casinos are made
so that you, forgetting about the time of day, spend your money
as long as possible. Social networks also help you siphon a decent
bundle of attention without hesitation, then turn off your phone
- and be left with nothing. While you spend money on entertainment,
they fuel your hope to "hit the jackpot": to get an important
acquaintance, the necessary information, a job offer and other
benefits. For example, a former Facebook employee and now a
venture capitalist and billionaire Chamat Palihapitiya in December
2018, at a meeting with Stanford University students, admitted that
he felt guilty for his participation in the development of social network
algorithms.
Social media techniques were created based on experiments with
dopamine. To a rat, researchers James Olds and Peter Milner stuck an
electrode into the reward region of the brain and gave a stimulation
lever to the paws. The animal stopped eating and drinking and endlessly
sting at the button. As a result, the experimental rodent, in eternal
self-stimulated ecstasy, became a dystopian image-symbol of the era
of consumption. In short, like a smartphone user.
In the 1960s USA, Robert Heath of Tulane University implanted such
electrodes in the brains of his patients and gave them the opportunity
to stimulate themselves on their own. The experimental patients behaved
like a notorious rat: they were engaged in self-stimulation up to 40 times
a minute, did not interrupt for food and continued to press the button
hundreds of times even after turning off the current. They reported rather
briefly that they felt something pleasant, but the compulsive pressing of
a button and the constant anxiety that the current would be cut off led
many researchers to the idea that it was not about pleasure. For example,
a patient who was similarly treated for narcolepsy said that during the
entire procedure he had not experienced a single joyful moment and he
felt despair.
What does this mean in practice?
Another study
(
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563216307543)
shows that people who use 7-11 social media platforms significantly
increase the level of depression and anxiety. They fall into neuroses,
psychosis and depression. So, in 2014
(
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full) in a famous
experiment Facebook proved that a news feed can make a person happy
or unhappy. And back in 2010, it became clear that the platform could
increase voter turnout with a simple notification, help a politician
win elections, and even spark a revolution in the country. Participation
in this experiment in managing the behavior of masses of people
based on big data is a condition for using social networks that you
accept, even if you don't know about it.
Therefore, when we talk about spiritual contamination, we must
understand that we are talking about a completely materialistic
phenomenon. When annoying, defamatory, frightening information
goes straight to your brain. Then, by means of hormones and the
cranial nerve, it is thrown into the intestines. In a state of stress,
not only the brain suffers, but also the immune system, which depends
on the bacterial flora of the intestines.
British researchers have proven this in the BBS documentary
Depression. In the journal Nature Aging, employees of University
College Cork published material where they reported that they were
able to rejuvenate the brain with the help of bacteria. It turned out that
anxiety and depression in most people is directly related to smartphones
and social networks. Constant stress kills your gut flora, which in turn
is responsible for the health of your nervous system. Therefore,
depression is nothing more than a lack of bacteria. According to doc.
the BBC film solves this with the help of fermented baked milk. Which
you need to drink at least for a month every day. After that, depression
disappears in 50% of cases. Thus, if you want to protect yourself from
spiritual pollution, the best way is not to use smartphones, social media.
You need to isolate yourself from the unreasonable excitement that
generates anxiety. Depression is not a death sentence, it is just a lack
of beneficial bacteria in the gut.
