Chapter 72 Has the internet destroyed humanity?

There are two main types of harm that people say about the so-called Internet: One is to say that the Internet and mobile phones have "destroyed human nature". "Because people have fallen into a state of over-reliance on the Internet and emails, people's ability to communicate has degraded significantly, forming a self-centered personality." "There are often malicious slander and slanderous remarks on the billboards of Channel 2. , Suicide websites have caused many people to commit suicide, and some people have even developed a sense of dependence on suicide websites, and the dark side of human psychology has been greatly activated", etc. These series of views all show that the Internet is harmful.

The representative figure who holds this point of view is the writer Yanagida Kunio.In his two books "The Failed Japanese" and "A Country Feeling Human Pain", Yanagida carefully analyzed the harm of the Internet. The specific themes are as follows: There is another view of the Internet harm theory that the Internet "causes the decline of IQ."For example, with the birth of a search engine such as Google, the homework that originally required brainpower to complete—writing a thesis—can now be completed by copying and pasting from the Internet without racking your brains to think. Become unable to think, knowledge becomes a fragmentary thing.

In the first chapter, I mentioned that an editor once asked me a question about "the Japanese with declining IQ", and he was talking about the dangers of the Internet. The details of the question are as follows: I have sorted out the opinions of people with this sense of crisis and the tips given to me by this editor, and I will introduce two below. For the above point of view, I express my own thoughts.In order for readers to understand thoroughly, here I first ask a question. In fact, there is no need to think about this question, anyone will answer "that is impossible". Therefore, no matter how much you criticize this fact now, it will be useless, and no matter how many cyber hazards you list, it will be useless.Instead of thinking about this problem, it is better to think about how to better navigate this brand new world.

In short, we must realize this point, for the "intelligence quotient" of our descendants, we must overcome these harms brought by the Internet. Now, the network world is called "Web 2.0", and it is in a very chaotic state. As for what impact it can have on society, it depends on how we deal with the relationship with the network. However, in this network society, it seems that the question itself has no standard answer. The 21st century we live in is an era in which there is no standard answer to anything.In my opinion, the Internet is the "culprit" that induces this world to become a world without answers.

Most importantly, how we humans use it. Some people pointed out that because of the anonymity of the Internet, humans have the opportunity to unleash the dark side.But then again, what kind of influence the Internet can bring varies from person to person, and the key is to see how humans use it.Just as the Internet may cause endless harm, it may also bring countless benefits to human beings, so in any case, people who use the Internet cannot be simply regarded as stupid. However, those who can use the Internet freely are, to a certain extent, lacking in knowledge, lack of thinking ability, lack of etiquette, and weak awareness of public rules.

However, these people don't exist only in the online world, they also exist in the real world, so this raises a problem that is unique to the Internet, and people's understanding of this problem is not very accurate.That is to say, in the online world, no one makes the rules, and no one gives directions to others.If this happened in real life, there would be frequent occurrences of crimes such as fraud on the Internet, and if we allow ourselves to develop in this direction, then there is no doubt that our collective IQ will go decline. Based on these understandings, we must consider how to use the Internet, only in this way can we avoid the harm caused by the Internet.