Ethics and the human psyche in this modern day, well let us talk apps. The ability to brainwash, alter the mind from a screen.
Gaming apps and isolation, a few key glitches on a screen during screen time on one application for an extended period of time may induce psychosis. Strategic reiterative add placement may make a person align to a subcultural. Potentially for cultural takeovers, as again when we align with a culture we may indeed fight for it.
There is a lot of unethical conduct in that space, and we are not privy to the why and to what outcome for app developers to want to fracture the connectivity of a person to society, or to say align with a specific culture for a strategy unbeknown to us.
The lack of internal ethics boards within companies who can roll out tech, the amount of people born into the world without guidance, without self control and also access to sophisticated technology. The fact addiction takes many shapes and forms, the fact we there is so much we do not want to see.
The issue with distorted minds, perception, is that it is not as visible as say a person in the depths of intravenous drug use without access to hygiene. The fentanyl crisis in the united states as it can be seen around the world, the many people who have lost connection to their physical vessel. Those with a distorted mind from tech appear well from first glance, but there is also that disconnect of mind and body occurring.
That is the beauty of somatic experiencing, feeling rain on ones skin for instance. Acknowledging what is visceral.
So faced with populations with x amount of people seeking a disconnect from body, and x amount of people seeking a disconnect from mind, we again are faced with a dichotomy.
What bridges in this space, those who give their mind to tech and those who give their bodies to drugs. Well, it gets harder when those in tech have more money and more standing in choices pertaining to the masses, compounded with the fact their compassion is potentially decreasing.
Substance abuse, and what I have seen of it in my life gives me some insight into that space. I advocate for safe injecting rooms, as a person living with HIV I know it is a key preventative measure for people who expose themself to the risk of transmission through shared needle practice. However, I do not agree with the legalization and potential commercialization of many things. As we can see what the pharmaceutical industry has done with endless “product creation”.
When medicine becomes a capitalistic space, we need less choices in some ways in the world not more. The many people stuck in a paradox of choice.
I digress,
The complexities of modern day business and how it can indeed corrupt the process unless we create something bulletproof from the start of legalisation or regulation in ethical access.
Cocaine for instance comes from a plant, Erythoxylon coca L., and only has the alkaloid content needed for conversion into a high value product when grown in a specific climate. The leaves can be made as a tea or chewed in high altitude. An appreciation for the high may also inhibit an appreciation for the plant if one is educated to this standard when gaining access to it.
Opium, from the poppy, Papaver somniferum, with numerous potent alkaloids the many ways the poppy has been synthesized and dishonored as a plant.
MDMA, the root bark of the deciduous tree, Sassafras albidum, is a key component of this potent substance that can in fact be used quite medicinally in the correct environment.
The list continues.
Education is key for appreciation but like the water running from our taps, the apps on our screens many people accept the norms of a place without understanding the work that goes into something being there. Without respect to practice and process.
Yet society continues to cater to this demographic again and again with the aim for more control in the process.
Control without ethics for nature it seems.
With unlimited access to tech which someone somewhere is making, potentially becoming increasingly underpaid, and in that process the only opportunity they may have in that space is to add glitches in the system for user impact. With potential real life symptoms such as paranoia and rage.
Whether such inputs to gaming applications be from the underpaid workers or say the intentions of a company who indeed is wanting to complete human trials, one is not privy to, we can only infer one or the other. Usually, the less wealthy exist as scapegoats if history is anything to go by.
So maybe it is time to look at California, the ethics of innovation, silicon valley and medicine and an openness to human based testing there. Or maybe some of the systems that have been born from the United States of America and how they have impacted Aus.
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