
D. B. Gooner
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Any time a tv show/book/song makes you sad/happy/angry, really if it makes you feel anything at all, it has to be heavily taxing on your psyche. These emotions are meant to be reserved for the ones closest to you. Think about how mentally ill we are, to feel any sadness or joy after reading a wall of text.
Any time you consome an emotional piece of media, you are sending signals to your body that something is extremely wrong. When you get teared up over a made-up story, you are signaling to your body that something horrible has happened to you or your loved ones. Your mind might know it's fake, but your body has a biochemical reaction no different from the one you might produce if a loved one passed away. We are essentially abusing our bodies by constantly alerting it that we are in danger or falling in love or experiencing death.
You will watch a tv show, get invested in a character, see him go through trials. In a media-free world you wouldn't get to know more than a dozen people the way you get to know these fictional characters. People somewhat jokingly get called parasocial nowadays, but realistically we are all parasocial beyond comprehension.
I wonder how fucked up we are compared to humans that don't have access to these sort of things. And how it will effect us in the long term.
Any time you consome an emotional piece of media, you are sending signals to your body that something is extremely wrong. When you get teared up over a made-up story, you are signaling to your body that something horrible has happened to you or your loved ones. Your mind might know it's fake, but your body has a biochemical reaction no different from the one you might produce if a loved one passed away. We are essentially abusing our bodies by constantly alerting it that we are in danger or falling in love or experiencing death.
You will watch a tv show, get invested in a character, see him go through trials. In a media-free world you wouldn't get to know more than a dozen people the way you get to know these fictional characters. People somewhat jokingly get called parasocial nowadays, but realistically we are all parasocial beyond comprehension.
I wonder how fucked up we are compared to humans that don't have access to these sort of things. And how it will effect us in the long term.