Men will die of video games and pornography
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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A well-known professor at Stanford University argues that humanity will not end from the impact of a giant asteroid, a deadly tsunami or irreparable climate change. This will lead to an excessive predilection for computer games and online pornography, he writes in his article.
Philip Zimbardo (Philip Zimbardo), a 79-year-old psychologist from Californian Stanford, believes that people who regularly play computer video games, cause their body much more harm than they think. Zimbardo: "Young people spend too much of their time in the digital world - for video games, watching porn, Internet correspondence, watching sports programs - all alone."
Games, as well as a predilection for pornographic resources, which abound in the World Wide Web, creates a "generation of male losers." These hobbies, according to Dr. Zimbardo, lead young people to "digital isolation", because of which they are unable to function properly in the real world and develop healthy relationships with women. Staying alone, men die before, the psychologist writes.
A Stanford psychologist told in a speech in the TED project that the sad data is also supported by the medical data of the US Annual Public Health Survey: increased aggression becomes an inseparable companion carried away by violent human video games.
Becoming constant consumers of network pornography and video games, men get used to loneliness, lag behind in development and cease to cope with real life, which is inconceivable without relationships with people, not to mention communication with the opposite sex. Man is a social animal, reminds Zimbardo, and is doomed to extinction, because he loses this characteristic.
In the life of the generation there is a "desynchronization" - in an educational institution, at work, in a romantic relationship, as excitation causes virtual reality, the professor writes.