Conscious Vs the World

Disclaimer: None of the ideas stated here are based on facts or research. These are simply my opinions, shaped by some books, podcasts, and as

I must confess, some personal bias.

The primary reason I believe many humans suffer from anxiety and depression today is that our brains aren't as sophisticated as we are.

I mean, most of us might think it's just because of social media, and that's indeed true. But if you delve deeper, taking a more cynical approach, you discover the core reason is that our brains simply struggle to comprehend when we tell them that what they see on the internet isn't true.

Like, you know how human evolution was unexpectedly fast for some reason. So fast that the environment didn't have time to catch up. Usually, when a species evolves in a new direction, the ecosystem evolves with it. If an organism thrived somewhere, all other species in the region evolved to better avoid getting killed. Lions evolved to become furious, deers evolved to be fast, and vultures learned to nourish themselves with leftovers due to a limited food supply. Spiders evolved to be sensitive to slight movements, and flies evolved to fly more swiftly. Polar bears started consuming too many fishes, so sea lions learned to swim for a more abundant food source.

However, there's a hypocritical reaction from mother nature when humans began consuming too much. Before us, ecosystems seemed to adapt to suit the needs of residing species while thriving. But when humans started their evolutionary journey, nature presented them with global warming and other issues. Instead of evolving and adapting, our environment started deteriorating.

As explained by the author of "Sapiens," Yuval Noah Harari, this was because human evolution occurred too rapidly for its environment. Mother nature never had time to catch up with us while our species heavily impacted every aspect of nature during its fast evolution, leading to consequences we now face.

Here's my opinion: Perhaps our brains also didn't have the time to evolve according to this reality we created for ourselves. One day, we woke up and found out we had access to the internet. And then, BOOM: millions of people globally suddenly got connected within a decade. We downloaded Facebook, and then BOOM: millions of users within a year. YouTube gained millions of users within six months, while Instagram only took two months to get that popular. The evolutionary process that usually took at least a century was now crammed into months.

Our brains couldn't evolve accordingly in time. In fact, till today, our brain still can't understand that all it sees isn't reality. We subconsciously think everything happening in movies is reality, regardless of how absurd it may seem to our conscious minds. We fail to comprehend that the cool influencer on Instagram isn't having as much fun as it seems. Our brains perceive everything in front of its eyes as absolute reality and mold future actions accordingly. The problem is that we reject this natural reaction and act based on our conscious minds. Our true, primal identity remains suppressed because it defies our logical consciousness. Our emotions, body chemistry, and wishes still work on an outdated system, and when you try to run modern software on old hardware, it malfunctions and self-destructs. Our brains tend to self-sabotage, and then we label it with names like anxiety, depression, insomnia, autism, and so on.

It almost seems like consciousness acts like a virus, not only for our bodies but also for the world. Human consciousness is an intruder in the human body, an outcast in this world of peaceful, slowly evolving creatures. This world constantly tries to destroy us, sending cyclones, floods, denying us food, and limiting our resources. Our bodies also do us no good; no matter how well we take care of them, they still take life away from us at some point, sending our consciousness to oblivion. Humans are doomed, and annihilation is inevitable.