Today's Journal
BRAIN ROT
‘Oxford University Press’s word of the year for 2024 was “brain rot,” a phrase commonly used on social media to describe the deterioration of a person’s mental state brought on by overconsumption of trivial online content.’ (Wall Street Journal)The term does not refer to literal brain deterioration. Rather, brain rot is a vibe: a feeling brought on by hours of scrolling through low-value social media content and a lighthearted, semi-ironic attitude toward screen addiction.
The brain rots like anything that is not used in an appropriate time frame and purpose. It doesn’t matter if it is milk, bananas, meat, gym clothes, socks, or cheese with blue fuzzy stuff on it… or a brain.
What a great choice for Word of the Year. Brain Rot could perhaps be very fertile soil for AI to plant deeply imbedded seeds that will be difficult to manage.
It is interesting to me that rotten is also called spoiled.
“But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear. I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but they didn’t see it. And they longed to hear what you hear, but they didn’t hear it.” Jesus