Consumers of content. More information - less understanding

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A modern average person receives approximately 10 times more information (by volume) from various sources every day than an average person in the middle of the 1980's. A special role is played by the Internet, the abundance of television and radio channels, the ability to contact relatives, friends, colleagues at any time from almost anywhere in the world.

This information flow has its own downside. If earlier the receipt of information by a person was appreciated, today we do not attach much importance to 90% information. This is an informational background with which we are forced to live.



A separate aspect is the relevance of information. 30 years ago, a separate information event could remain relevant for weeks, or even months. Today there is so much informational slag that information can remain relevant at best for a couple of days, or more often for several hours.

A person has a special feature: to receive information without passing it through himself.

On the one hand, huge information flows allow us to know more, on the other hand, to understand less. The information background actually dulls the population, makes content consumers out of people even without the desire to delve into it. Hence the fashion for short messages, tweets. Hence the desire to comment on material that did not bother to finish reading at least until the middle. Hence the reaction to the picture without going into what is written under it.

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    1. -3
      11 December 2019 14: 41
      something is starting to annoy recently that no matter how day it’s some kind of information to think about that we have dumb people. they don’t understand the information ... they’re looking wrong ... they are thinking wrong ... the population is dumbing wherever you look ... why don’t we love ourselves so much ...
      1. +6
        11 December 2019 14: 53
        Unfortunately, this process is irreversible ... We are turning into a society of consumers! Look at the picture “Close account in a rural school” by N.P. Bogdanov-Belsky ... many of today's children ~ 10 years old will be able to solve the example depicted in this picture in Uma ???
        The benefits of civilization save us from the need to invent them ...
        1. +7
          11 December 2019 14: 58
          Quote: Hunter 2
          Unfortunately, this process is irreversible ... We are turning into a society of consumers!

          Reversible ... still as reversible .. Consumer - cannot consume indefinitely, since resources are always finite. And the information has always been selectively consumed .. whoever likes it .. before, without exception, they read all the books .. and the world was no worse than they understood today.
          1. -4
            11 December 2019 15: 17
            Of course, yes, that's just to digest their volumes. Oh, how soon they won’t be able to seriously think so)
            1. +7
              11 December 2019 15: 41
              Quote: carstorm 11
              Of course, yes, that's just to digest their volumes. Oh, how soon they won’t be able to seriously think so.

              the keyword is "think". and everything is aimed at making the number of thinkers as small as possible
              1. -1
                11 December 2019 16: 41
                I personally don’t see anything like it in my circle) so I won’t argue on this topic.
            2. +10
              11 December 2019 15: 44
              There is also one more moment - forgotten! The quality of education! Especially - Junior and Middle School! The level of education, compared with the Soviet period - has worsened at times! Son himself is a schoolboy, second grade. Textbooks (with rare exceptions) - generally Rubbish! There is no single standard for them; moving to another school is a different program. Everything is built in this way, there is money - You need to hire tutors, which you have to do.
              I do not like to hold a rally ... but in the primary education system - I urgently need to conduct deep reforms!
              1. +4
                11 December 2019 19: 47
                Quote: Hunter 2
                I do not like to hold a rally ... but in the primary education system - I urgently need to conduct deep reforms!

                And in your opinion, in what area can we do without deep reforms?
          2. +3
            11 December 2019 16: 00
            and the world is no worse than today's understood.

            Vladimir, welcome hi However, I cannot completely agree. Looking back in the 90s, I believe that we were all much more naive and trusting, and all from a lack of understanding.
            1. +6
              11 December 2019 18: 46
              Quote: Voyager
              However, I cannot completely agree. Looking back in the 90s, I believe that we were all much more naive and trusting, and all from a lack of understanding.

              Andrey, naivety and trustfulness are more likely from purity of soul and thoughts .. if you rely on practice, then you are right, in the 90s there was no such dirty experience .. the country's population was so naive that we were deceived by all and sundry .. starting from the Kashpirovskys, the MMM, the government .. but actually only through deception, robbery .. the first capitals were put together .. But still gullibility and naivety are qualities that cannot characterize a bad person .. and that means the USSR created far better people than now.. hi
          3. 0
            11 December 2019 17: 58
            Quote: Svarog
            before, without exception, they read all the books .. and the world was no worse than they understood today.

            But many understood in their own way. Therefore, at one time, seduced by chewing gum and Coke. Today, consciousness has changed in many. And where this consciousness will lead is unknown. Although the idea of ​​modern consciousness has already been clearly outlined. The main thing in this life is sausage and toilet paper!
        2. +3
          11 December 2019 15: 12
          Quote: Hunter 2
          The benefits of civilization save us from the need to invent them ...

          Two points ... first-Progress moves Laziness. Second ... the time of innovators, discoverers and good crazy geniuses is gradually passing away.
          As one character of the film used to say, we stopped doing great stupid things and climbing windows to our beloved women. hi
        3. -4
          11 December 2019 16: 37
          This problem, the majority of holders of higher education will not be able to solve, I’m not talking about children. Here is such a primitive education in the Russian Empire, when a peasant boy in bast shoes and onuch, a chesha in the back of his head, solved problems that most people can’t handle now.
        4. 0
          11 December 2019 20: 28
          Of course, reversible, any scientist will tell you that man is such an adaptable animal that its survival can give odds to all other types of mammals. In other words, the human race in the second generation is adapting to almost everything
        5. -2
          11 December 2019 23: 14
          Mental mathematics to help, now children at 6 years old consider it better than calculators. Provided that parents do not push upbringing and development of children in kindergarten and school.
        6. +1
          12 December 2019 09: 38
          Verbal counting. Problems are not only in mathematics ...
      2. +6
        11 December 2019 15: 37
        Today, 2,5 experts are per average resident! laughing
        1. +7
          11 December 2019 15: 45
          Quote: Finches
          Today, 2,5 experts are per average resident

          Everyone knows how to properly treat, teach and manage the country. Country of Soviets
      3. +10
        11 December 2019 17: 11
        they need a consumer society .. they are not interested in intellectuals.

    2. +5
      11 December 2019 14: 44
      The information background actually dulls the population,
      I disagree, you just need to separate, filter the Old and what you are interested in it will remain, and because for you there is slag, you won’t even notice it, you’ll probably just ignore it, even if everything is there, you will get poisoning from overeating laughingIt seems to me that most already have a defensive reaction to an overabundance of information.
      1. +7
        11 December 2019 15: 12
        Quote: anjey
        you just need to separate, filter the Old and what you are interested in it will remain
        Delusion. Before "separating" you need to know that, and most importantly - How to separate. Must have unshakable base - worldview.
        Education in the USSR is not perfect - but there was an attempt to make it systemic. Therefore, access to the engineering and scientific corps was high. Art has progressed.
        The West knows this, because Soros invaded and firmly sat in the educational institutions of all countries.

        Quote: anjey
        It seems to me that most already have a defensive reaction to an overabundance of information.
        This is a biological defense reaction - a block for any information. The trouble is that the correct and necessary information is difficult - you need a thought process.
        Hence all sorts of "Comedy ..." are held in high esteem.

        A simple test for anyone - you watch "Comedy Club", this ... Petrosyan and the like - "congratulations". "Pelmeni" produced a more or less normal product for a long time, but now they are also going down.
        1. 0
          11 December 2019 15: 23
          Well, now you’re more likely to think about tastes than about thinking) I know a lot of people who, though they’re great clever people, look funny and comedy) it’s just love for more subtle humor and other things that seems to come with time)
      2. 0
        11 December 2019 15: 30
        Quote: anjey
        It seems to me that most already have a defensive reaction to an overabundance of information.

        just not the majority is informational obese
      3. +3
        11 December 2019 15: 55
        In theory, each has its own measure. There is an opinion from the outside that mostly not very happy people are interested in the same policy. And also, that there is no point in watching and reading the news, because the most important thing is that you will learn from others. After all, in the final analysis, we are swimming in a large ocean of information, we are also spending resources on filtering and all for what? To spend your personal time on another's decisions, statements and so on. This gives a sense of belonging to something important and serious, but we all know that this is an illusion.

        The fact remains - the number of neurological and mental illnesses has been growing over the past couple of decades, and the amount of information, the way it is consumed, has a far from last role.

        Personally, I often find myself thinking when I read the news, articles and comments on them, and isn’t it better to go and take another walk? Or do some business that requires movement, and even better and a creative approach. And for the body it is good for the psyche too.
        1. +1
          11 December 2019 16: 06
          In some respects, you are right, but this illusion of ownership makes the heart beat faster, but after 50 it’s better to fight with laziness, break away from gadgets and go for a walk, go fishing or skiing laughingAnd even better, to be able to combine all this, doing everything within reasonable limits.
        2. +3
          11 December 2019 18: 51
          Quote: Voyager
          The fact remains - the number of neurological and mental illnesses has been growing over the past couple of decades, and the amount of information, the way it is consumed, has a far from last role.

          This is really a fact .. moreover, corporations on antidepressants earn more and more every year ..
          Quote: Voyager
          Personally, I often find myself thinking when I read the news, articles and comments on them, and isn’t it better to go and take another walk? Or do some business that requires movement, and even better and a creative approach. And for the body it is good for the psyche too.

          I do this if not a walk, then the music .. Estas Tonne helps a lot to relax, classical guitar, space music)) Stas he really ..
    3. 0
      11 December 2019 14: 45
      This information flow has its own downside.

      It could not be otherwise!
      You need a couple more eyes, ears and ... brains, or something, to activate the received!
    4. +6
      11 December 2019 14: 50
      Yes ... Whether it was thirty years ago ... Two or three channels on black-and-white television, a VEF radio, a newspaper (we had "trud", "Izvestia", and a "teacher's"), and grandmothers in courtyard (the last source is not very reliable))) Nostalgia ...
      1. +4
        11 December 2019 14: 53
        Well, there were still * voices *. From there, too, they shot Old, didn’t they? About thirty years ago ...
        1. +3
          11 December 2019 14: 54
          My friend was listening there. I did not indulge in this)))
          1. +3
            11 December 2019 14: 58
            But I’m a sinner, I listened. Especially musical programs. By the way, yes, it was the WEF that allowed me to do this.
        2. +2
          11 December 2019 15: 04
          Quote: Phil77
          Well, there were * voices * after all.

          There were. I personally listened (or rather, overheard) interviews of "Afghan" defectors by "voice". Receiver "Ocean".
          1. +1
            11 December 2019 15: 15
            Well, I was a little different then. * Rock crops * BBC / Novgorodtsev. A * Ocean * was also a chic machine. Eh * where are my seventeen years old *?
            1. +1
              11 December 2019 15: 26
              This is how my father listened, and I "overheard" what he listened to. Late at night, through the noises of the "jammers", constantly adjusting the "floating" frequency, and the order is strict - you can't "tread" about this process anywhere. For me, kid, it seemed well, just spy activities. In a word - romance.
      2. +1
        11 December 2019 15: 01
        But about the grannies under * riding, let me disagree. Ours knew everything, everything and everything!
    5. +2
      11 December 2019 14: 55
      It is easier to watch than to think and read, so people follow the path of "least resistance".
    6. +2
      11 December 2019 15: 01
      Even 5 years ago I said that the war did not end in the 45th ... I will say more, and in 1918 it did not end. And for me, these are not two world wars, but one that does not stop to this day. It changes, passing into the phase of open armed confrontation, or smolders, and the information, economic, sanctions, ideological component of the war comes in place of bombs and shells.
      You can talk a lot about how much and what information today's inhabitant receives, but through the new gadgets (which were not 30 years ago), through the media, television and so on, it is precisely the information war. The time of fakes, cheers and patriots, liberals and democrats ... everything mixed up and every day it is more and more difficult for the average person to figure out where the truth is.
      To successfully fight in the information war, we need ideology, patriotic youth education (not farce and window dressing), and finally, the population’s education is real, not bought or formally taken into account.
      1. +2
        11 December 2019 16: 02
        Andrey, have you seen the feature film "White Tiger" by Shakhnazarov?
        1. +1
          11 December 2019 16: 25
          Quote: Voyager
          Andrey, have you seen the feature film "White Tiger" by Shakhnazarov?

          Yes, of course ... a phantasmagoria with a philosophical meaning, in which much takes place to be in reality.
        2. -2
          11 December 2019 16: 45
          The film turned out to be a cheap action movie, compared to the original source - Boyashov's book. I recommend reading it. The parable of the eternal struggle of good and evil. Which to film, in general, is impossible. Even to Shakhnazarov.
    7. +3
      11 December 2019 15: 12
      “Information without human understanding is like an answer without a question — it is meaningless”
      A. Maslow, American psychologist.
    8. 0
      11 December 2019 15: 29
      Today, 90% of the information we do not attach much importance.
      because 90% of today's information is slag, the Internet consists of 95% of which 30 percent is not just slag, but extremely dangerous information that could well be harmful to humans
    9. +2
      11 December 2019 15: 33
      As Ecclesiastes used to say: "Much knowledge increases sorrow!"
      Have you noticed that our people almost stopped smiling in the streets?
    10. +3
      11 December 2019 15: 43
      I have long limited the flow of informational garbage for myself:
      I do not listen to the radio in the car
      I watch news on TV no more than 5 minutes. In a day.
      I absolutely do not care on television gorlopans where they drown for Ukraine and Syria, where they wash dirty linen, all kinds of Skabeevs and the like.
      You need to be able to choose what is important in the information flow, and not swallow everything.
    11. Cat
      +1
      11 December 2019 16: 20
      Mass media (as the main source of information) are not intended to inform at all - they are intended to form an opinion (well, or consumer demand).
      The most useful source of information is an airborne alert system. wassat . Since childhood, I remember the teachings of civil defense, when sirens began to howl throughout the city. It was really scary
    12. +1
      11 December 2019 16: 35
      "My head is not a garbage dump to throw any garbage into it." This song with these words sounded in the 90s. in the direction of some party, so to speak. They will sue. And here, knowing that they will not receive the proper answer, they are talking complete nonsense. Why am I praising the popular literature of the past? It developed in a person the ability to think logically, and such a person cannot be stuffed with any slag.
    13. 0
      11 December 2019 17: 37
      I just want to say - look back at the future. There is more than just more information. It has become contrasted in the content of what is in itself. It is capacious in variety, etc., etc. This means that it is necessary to maneuver and use the methods not to search for any solutions and not only solutions, but to analyze it. The analysis of large volumes of information against the background of system landmarks cannot be oversupplied. Therefore, ordinary people cannot understand the reasons for such an excess of information. Therefore, only and only mathematicians can show not the harm, but the benefit of big data.
    14. -1
      14 December 2019 10: 24
      What useful information is pouring from a zombie? Either Kremlin propaganda chew the same thing, or Malakhism picking on dirty laundry. The psyche protects the human mind, so we do not perceive this nonsense. This nonsense is annoying.

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