Neil Neil Pozmann said that the deterioration of people's thinking ability is due to the change of thinking mode from text-centered to image-centered. This is only a superficial phenomenon, not the root cause. For example, in the entertainment activities in China, the proportion of TV is not high, and many people in China no longer think about it. Neil Pozmann took the American 18- 19 era as an example, saying that it was the era when printing presses ruled. People care about current affairs, are good at thinking, and actively participate in political activities until television appears. In fact, it was the early days of the founding of the United States, and the relationship between the economic base and the superstructure was still unstable. People from all walks of life have to try their best to express their opinions in order to fight for their own interests, and naturally they will care about politics. The interests of all parties are fixed in the form of law. After everything seems to be completed, people feel that there is nothing worth thinking about. Without the drive of interests, people stop thinking. Neil Pozmann has found neither the real root of the problem nor the solution.

Western traditional culture is dominated by Christian culture, and its ethical and moral thoughts are relatively simple. It is believed that after death, people should respect God on earth and practice hard in order to enjoy happiness in heaven. After the Western Renaissance, westerners gradually abandoned religion, especially in modern times, with more and more developed productive forces and richer materials, they no longer pursue happiness in heaven, because happiness has already arrived on earth. Due to the sharp decline in the number of believers, a large number of churches in western countries are forced to close, tear down, rent or sell every year. Many churches have been transformed into museums, restaurants, gymnasiums, houses, warehouses, supermarkets, skating rinks, discos, kindergartens and even mosques. People no longer believe in religion, and religious commandments are no longer observed. Coupled with their liberal tradition, they advocate unconstrained individualism, and everything is individual-centered, regardless of the relationship with society. In western society, there is no distinction between men and women, and people have to cross the river. Just like people in Brave New World, they just sleep, eat, drink and be merry. Just like animals, they call it "returning to nature"! Mencius said, "Those who have attained the Tao are also sufficient to keep out the cold. Seclusion does not teach, close to animals. " If we leave moral education, prosperity is likely to become the abyss of moral degradation. This society that lacks faith and ethics seems to be happy and peaceful, but it can't stand the wind and rain. Look at the United States under Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane COVID-19.

Modern society is highly developed in science and technology, and people's understanding of nature is developing rapidly, but the public's understanding of their own spiritual world is deteriorating. People don't like to use their brains. They eat, drink and have fun. They follow what others say when they see it. Whether it makes sense or not, people's truth is that of others. They also call this blind obedience "fashion". Although they desperately advocate personal freedom, it is difficult to find personality in them, and even they all speak with one voice. Both TV hosts and ordinary people should pay attention to "fashion" and spoil Chinese, such as using "situation" to crowd out "situation", "problem", "trouble" and "accident"; Replace "team", "collective", "organization" and even "gang" with "team". Some TV stations have also set up "fashion channels" to spread vulgarity and absurdity to viewers with shoddy TV dramas. With the powerful influence of TV and Internet, "fashion" can influence the behavior of people who stop thinking. People who like to follow blindly do not need their own brains to judge and reason, and give up thinking, which can make people feel relaxed. Because you only care about the present and don't look at the long term, you can make people carefree and ignorant. So in western countries, just like "5g spreads COVID-19", "Injecting disinfectant can treat COVID-19." Many people believe such absurd and stupid words, which makes the western world with the world's top cultural and educational level seem to have returned to the Middle Ages at once.

China today is like the United States where entertainment kills you. People are only willing to accept videos and pictures that don't need thinking, such as funny short videos, some hilarious variety shows, shoddy film and television dramas, and are afraid of words that need thinking and understanding. When people speak and write, they don't care whether the meaning is accurate or not, and they don't carefully choose words and make sentences. They have turned delicate, beautiful, rich, vivid and exquisite Chinese words into vague and monotonous ones. In addition to the "situation" and "team" mentioned above, they also turned happiness, joy, happiness, comfort, excitement and celebration into ". Whether this symbol conforms to the grammatical rules or not, the first words are "then" and "said, seen and done", just like suffering from language expression disorder syndrome. Boring things are full of meaning in people's eyes, incoherent words become reasonable, and the use of misspelled words and sick sentences becomes "fashion" These ridiculous things are particularly common on TV! The so-called "network language" as naive as baby language also came into being. The seriousness, clarity and value of discourse have been seriously degraded, and people have gradually lost their ability to seriously think and rationally judge social affairs, and have been turned into ignorant and fearless rational illiteracy by frivolous and shallow cultural environment. People no longer need wisdom, so they think that emotional intelligence should be superior to IQ. Especially in this anti-intellectual era, people are proud of their mistakes. The more mistakes they make, the more proud they are and the more fashionable they are. Our culture is more and more like a farce.