The problem of hyper-stimuli

Communities Based on Avoiding Hyper-Stimuli

As with creating a food subculture, it would be relatively easy to create other subcultures around avoiding other forms of hyper-stimuli (such as social media, porn and video games) as there is no need to agree on why those things are being avoided, just that they are best when the exposure is in low dose, if at all.

But, telling people not to do something is a tactic that reaps very few results, but giving people a "why" - and an understanding what the basic drives for food, social acceptance, sex and competition are there for and how best to direct them fruitfully- gives people a mission.

It is communities based on shared values that have the most power to resist negative aspects of the dominant culture because they have a positive vision for the future – which is exactly what is needed to tackle what is perhaps the most series problem facing the developed world.