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INCOMING YAP SESSION
Most people live in a fantasy world constructed by their social media feeds and echo chambers. They develop these insane theories about how the world works while sitting in their mom's basement for sixteen hours a day. When you haven't felt sunlight in three weeks, your brain starts to rot.
Look at the evidence: people who spend all their time online have significantly worse mental health outcomes. It's not rocket science. The human brain evolved for millions of years to interact with a physical environment, not to stare at pixels and argue with strangers.
And don't pretend like you don't know exactly who I'm talking about. Those people who construct elaborate conspiracy theories or social justice frameworks without ever actually interacting with the real world they claim to understand. You can't comprehend reality through a screen.
It's not complicated. The real problem is that online spaces create these perfect little bubbles where you never have to confront anything that challenges your worldview. Reality has friction. It pushes back when your ideas are bullshit. The internet just gives you more bullshit to confirm what you already believe.
Look at the research data I've compiled. People who spend more than six hours daily online show a 40% decrease in ability to process conflicting information. Their critical thinking skills literally atrophy. The brain is like any other organ. Use it or lose it.
See this? This is what happens to your dorsolateral prefrontal cortex when viewing negative social media posts. You become intellectually brittle.
When I tell someone to touch grass, it's because they've lost perspective on what actually matters.
The internet has created this bizarre situation where people think having strong opinions about shit they know nothing about is somehow virtuous.
The longer someone stays in digital environments without real-world correction, the more their perception warps.
It's not just mental health but just epistemological corruption.
They literally lose the ability to distinguish between what's real and what's just online noise.
And you know what's really fucked up? The people who need to touch grass the most are always the ones most resistant to the idea.
They've built their entire identity around these digital constructs.
Their entire sense of self becomes wrapped up in these artificial online personas and communities.
They don't have an identity outside of being a 'conservative commentator' or 'social justice activist' or whatever digital tribe they've pledged allegiance to.
It's pathetic.
These people wake up, immediately check their phones, spend all day arguing with strangers, and go to bed thinking about their next post. They've outsourced their entire cognitive process to whatever groupthink dominates their corner of the internet.
Their opinions aren't even their own. They're just regurgitating whatever their algorithm feeds them.
People don't even realize they're being programmed.
I can predict with 89% accuracy what someone will think about a new political issue based solely on their digital footprint. Not because they're thinking critically, but because they're following a script.
The irony is that all of this was predicted decades ago.
We've created a system where people think they're free thinkers while becoming increasingly homogenized in their thought patterns.
The algorithms aren't designed to challenge you but to keep you engaged. And nothing keeps people engaged like content that confirms what they already believe.
THIS IS DANGEROUS
This confirmation bias feedback loop is literally rewiring human cognition on a global scale. We're creating generations of people who physically cannot tolerate cognitive dissonance.
The healthy brain engages with contradictory information by activating these critical thinking regions. The chronically online brain shows avoidance patterns, literally routing around anything that challenges their established beliefs.
And that's why I tell people to touch grass.
It's a prescription.
Physical reality doesn't care about your feelings or ideological framework.
When you interact with the actual world, you're forced to confront the limitations of your mental models.
