Terence Field
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Comments by "Terence Field" (@terencefield3204) on "Zuckerberg is right: There is insufficient scientific evidence that social media harms mental health" video.
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Just as economics produces, ludicrous measures of prosperity and success one bizarre result, being the assertion that a Chinese peasant living in his village with his extended family, but having no cash whilst living well from the vegetables and rice that he produces, and the carp that he farms in the rice patties, is intrinsically poorer in every respect than a Chinese urban slave, living in a disgusting apartment in a foul shiny soulless Chinese city, and going home to see his loved ones for a week every two years so also are the measures of social harm caused by the multivariate effects of digital intervention, not subject to modern analytical techniques .
An example of this is clear, and it is the political, cultural, social, and economic ghettoization, which grows with the days and becomes extreme, but which the level of the individual cannot be readily measured, Even though we live with the poisonous misery that produces which are so complex so subtle, and so profound, that we have no way of minimizing their deleterious effects.
That my thinking processes and iterative analysis of life can be so distorted by such things as algorithms feeding me what it thinks I want to know, and depriving me of the freedom of wide ranging observation, is another gross abuse, distortion, and truncation of the liberties that the human mind has always been used.
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