Sylvanna Devlin

Suffering from cognitive dysfunction does not mean you are always intellectually impaired. Some otherwise smart individuals lose the ability to think under foul circumstances.

Lack of food, water, shelter, medicine, safety can all cause difficulties with following a train of thought. As can any form of Abuse but in particular reactive abuse

Combined with the fear mongering of sensationalized news, and it’s a sneaky soup for limiting brainy ability.

I’ve been over Reactive Abuse

Barbs, baiting, boundary crossing, needling and wheedling.

Some people are such assholes.

I’m leaving aside heavy duty situations like torture, and physical violence. As well as direct emotional abuse. Those certainly can do nasty work to our abilities to use our minds.

But reactive abuse – particularly combined with an attack on or reduction of basic needs – will do a number on cognition!

Why would someone deliberately try to cause cognitive dysfunction?

Pliability. Those who are melted down are theoretically easier to mold and control. Those who find themselves torn down by henpecking, built up again, torn down again, are thought to eventually step in line.

I’ll die before I’ll let another control me. But that’s personal.

What can we do to address the causes of Cognitive Dysfunction and maybe avoid bitterness form thus potentially malice?

Universal Basic Income, public medical, dental, psychiatric care, housing.

We as a country have the finances – it’s just concentrated. That’s not helping our society handle things wisely.

As has been described by anyone arguing for U.B.I one could work for more. But it’s usually presented as compassionate, which it is, but it’s also practical.

A healthier society is more productive and a strong physical body leads to a strong psychological perspective.

We’d see a reduction in cognitive dysfunction and then likely soothe some malicious individuals and prevent malice from ever forming.

Clearer thinking and less bitterness will take the interest in sport right out of some people.

Now it’s worth specifically addressing fake news and reality abuse. Those two – particularly when combined lead to an intense dent in one’s sense of safety. Especially the same false message repeated loudly by the speaker- even at reduced decibels by the receiver.

We absolutely have to address reality abuse. And the prevalence of fake news, sound bites culture, and sensationalism.

We could also do with curbing the use of AI to replace reading a whole article. My writing (usually) is tightly packed. It is the short version.

I shiver to think what an AI does to it.

Add in a decline in educational standards and expectations that colleges now teach basics that should be mastered in middle school?

We have an epidemic of cognitive dysfunction on our hands.

Americans aren’t any more stupid than those in other countries. In areas there is an anti-intellectual culture- but that could be addressed. And while it’s tempting to write off those who are afraid of learning- maybe we should wonder why.

I taught myself the best way I learn. But I had the support of my parents. And am unusual in my capacity for self directed learning.

But if an educational approach doesn’t take learning and thinking styles into consideration then learning becomes this mysterious, frustrating process that they can’t relate to.

Anti-intellectualism.

If you’re afraid of learning, living in a society with a high prevalence of abuse, and can barely make ends meet if at all. Of course you’re going to feel like you’re trying to think through soup.

Not everyone who has their thought-process dented by society becomes bitter. And of those who do, not all start using abuse to entertain themselves. Malice.

But most with malice are bitter and not thinking straight. They certainly are abusive arses for fun.

It’s worth an aside that some wealthy but malicious individuals become bitter that the world doesn’t serve them like a band of servants to a king.

They resent happiness because nothing will ever be enough for them. And they become or are so abusive the only people who like them are sucking up or pandered to.

Certain individuals come to mind.

They too are suffering from cognitive dysfunction. Though a large number of us wonder if they aren’t also a little intellectually inhibited in the first place.

Just born with a reduced capacity to think. It certainly seems like that’s possible.

I do wonder about someone going into the bathroom expecting her words to echo back but all I hear is the sly, repeated sound bite “come back to reality”

It makes others fear me because they believe she has a point beyond abuse and sport. So I get more abuse directed at me.

No one knows what she’s talking about but it sounds bad. Groups and mobs form because when suffering from cognitive dysfunction one needs a leader and my goal is to help people with self directed lives.

I want a smarter society.

And it’s possible.

If people were more careful about who they let do the thinking and have their basic needs met.