Psychological concerns of our modern world

Human faces become more-attractive to us the more we see them. This feature presumably evolved to make us get along better with our tribesmen, and to find an acceptable mate with fewer options.

But in the modern world, where we see so many strangers, everyone looks comparatively uglier than in days of yore, barring ofc modern fashion and makeup.

This causes issues in the dating world. People swipe left on tons of people whom they would have found quite attractive had they seen them many times in their village. Instead, nowadays only those very few people who are attractive ex nihilo are worthy of right-swipes.

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Something else I'm concerned about is that, normally, most of what you think about are things you recently already thought about. But nowadays, most of what we think about may well be whatever some algorithm put into our heads. This implies that we may not be getting enough time to fully process things from previous days as we are repeatedly bombarded with new things.

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Another issue lies in textual communication. It's a freaking miracle that writing is even possible in the first place; but we have to remember that it is artificial. When you are looking at and speaking with a person in real life, you are engaging way different areas of your brain vs when you are commenting on Reddit. The real life interaction usually almost forces you to be decent; but in the virtual interaction, as far as your brain knows, you're not even talking to a human. I fear that excessive textual communication -- especially with strangers -- leads to a novel kind of psychopathy, whereby you engage the mirror neurons and other such critical social machinery so little as to lack them in practice; thus making you functionally a psychopath. At best it's a kind of interactive journalling, not social interaction. Touching grass won't fix this; you need to interact with real people to be fully human yourself.

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I also fear that living in concrete jungles of myriad strangers just boggles the human mind and forces it into a state of dysfunction, just in general. Being out in Nature and around people you know are such significant things to the brain. Modern cities largely excise both, to varying extents.

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There are countless other things to be worried about, as regard the psychological externalities of modernity. But these are the few I wanted to notate here right now.