Have We Become Unwired from What Matters?
An examination of how contemporary reward-driven culture has led to cognitive unwiring — weakening our capacity for ethical reasoning, abstract thought, and societal responsibility. I’m starting to wonder if people truly care anymore — not care in the shallow, performative sense, but care in the way human beings were designed to care: ethically, morally, spiritually, and intellectually. Because what I observe today is not a lack of capacity — but a profound unwiring of that capacity. We are naturally wired for depth. Every civilization that built anything of meaning — from Greek inquiry to Islamic cosmology — began with a mind that could see beyond the body, beyond ingredients, beyond routines, beyond results. The human being is architecturally designed for abstraction, reflection, consequence, and collective moral vision. But something has happened. Somewhere between consumerism, dopamine culture, and the endless churn of “content,” an entire population has become unwired fr...
