Hoan

2y

ENFJ

Cancer

It seem grim, as well as the hypotheses asked here. I do feel like globalization and what we’re experiencing in technological shift definitely has some role in the equation. I remember the first time I had ever felt depressed about life was after taking a series of courses on world economic and globalization in college and how that has impacted us for good and bad (especially). I guess you can call it a form of exetential depression as a result of learning something so profound but that seem like most people rarely questioned deeply on. I also took an amazing course on diffusion of innovation and how many inventions and innovations were being misappropriated as not intended by the original inventors that has had drastic effect on society. For an example the invention of ultrasound was so beneficial to the medical world… but the inventor never saw ahead that it would later be used nefariously in China to target select female fetuses to be aborted since culturally Chinese families want to have at least one male child to be future household of the family line. I think in the last century we’ve been heading toward such exponential growth that now in the last 30-40 years we’re dealing with changes at such a rapid pace that our researchers and thinkers of the world cannot keep up in order to properly warn us from a scientific and logical viewpoint of the negative consequences we’ll be facing in society as a result of technology and globalization. It doesn’t help that the most powerful people in the world has a monopolization on information and communication network. Really interesting food for thought though, thanks for sharing! I remember looking into a similar study on the “rat park” by Bruce K Alexander a few years back but I wonder how I could miss this one by Calhoun. Guess I got more research articles to queue up for bed tonight x)