Death By Data. Information Is Driving Us Insane.

As Slade or Quiet Riot would say… “Mama weer all crazee now…”

Schizophrenia is defined as “a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.” Schizophrenia is also living in the age where real life, and in order of preference, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, and 4Chan or Twitch, all are in constant competition for finite amounts of our emotional attention and cognitive action. Long story short, I was walking down the street yesterday, and so many apps on my phone buzzed for attention that it felt like a million bees sank their stingers into my thigh. And then, when I reached my hand into my pocket to make sure that I wasn’t bleeding, my fingertips were singed by the heat radiating from a Samsung Galaxy X7 whose Mophie-enhanced battery had shockingly and suddenly been overwhelmed to death. My phone’s cause of death was data, an expiration by over-information. And here we are. I can’t believe that we can escape this age, but how do we survive in an age where, by definition, schizophrenia is the new normal?