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The unfortunate infantilization of the west - Perspective of separation between eSports and sports.

My draft thoughts so far;


The 'effect' of the development of internet as a technology on us as a society is still emerging, and as far as I am aware, we are yet to see any correlation between the internet as a evolution of technology, and our collective mental health. But I think we are seeing bits here and there.

With radio we spread music, news and information. Man realised it could be used for propaganda.
The newspaper kept us informed so we could make informed decisions, until it was used for propaganda
The TV opened us up to the marvel of other people. We could see the faces of the voices and how the world looks. After a while, it was used for propaganda.

However, i think if you take the advanced of technologies in the perspective of countries, this all happened on a local scale back before all that. Townships was either brutal taken over, or manipulation was used to voters into voting when democracy was spread, or war was faught.
So, let us keep that in mind.

In the last few years we have seen dictatorships actions trying to take a firmer and firmer grip on other societies, in order to spread their ideology. They gain from a broken, scared and insecure county. A county of increased polarity.
A country that tears itself slowly to pieces, while they scoop up the rewards in form of e.g. buying up huge amounts of realestate or increased sway in form of corporate control.

I do not think they are doing it in order to create s society with a higher number of people with 'longer and stronger trauma'
Although their reasons are different then the known impact on mental health, the outcomes can realign.

PayPal can take your money if they see you doing something bad. A private company deciding the rules for what they seem unsavoury. Not courts.
A big game developer using your voice data to see who should be punished and giving the decisions of punishments to the users.
Other game developers using known psychological effects to glue people to games.

Online games has a lot in common with what we normally see happening in sports. Both individually and as a group.
There is a unhealthy separation though, one that is there to coddle and protect the opponents from, what is in other sports, seen as normal banter.

The raise in mental-health issues in parents last 40 years and the increase of this ever over protection of online gamers, is making it all worse. Since they WANT to flee the reality of potential traumas that is put on them. And it is very easy.

The unhealthy separation is in sports in real life, we have banter. We have people calling each other names. We have people being outraged, even be it for a moment, until the game ends.

We force them to be imitators on interactions which inherently, more than not often is the same as football.
While we also have a increase in hurtful vocabulary.