How did glasses go from being invented in the 14th century just as a reading aid and staying that way for centuries until it became basically expected for a fourth of the 40+ population to wear them all day in the 20th century? And now like 90% of east Asian zoomers use them? Is myopia a social contagion like transgenderism or glass delusion, that spread after figures like Benjamin Franklin and Harold Lloyd made it fashionable and high status? Does this also explain the revulsion glassoids feel towards laser surgery and lenses, that the myopia is more like a subconscious urge to wear glasses than an actual problem with the eye?
Its sincerity is nearly lifelike.
Yes. Notice how it's primarily nerd communities that are struck by glassopathy are the same ones struck by transgenderism.
Or maybe it's because we stopped selecting for good vision since glasses exist
Its need for acceptance is overwhelming.It responds to nearly every stimulus no matter how painful.Forever unloved, even by its own mother.
>>17080083It's principaly the lack of lead or chromium, it appears that either results in inproperly grown bones. There isn't enough space for the eye to focus at the distance.
>>17080083People used to go outside, now they don't do that.
>>17080083If you needed glasses in the 14th century you absolutely needed them as a necessity.In modern times glasses are a commodity and basically everyone will experience some type of degeneration as they age so glasses are often prescribed or recommended because they are so cheap. Regardless if it's a disability to not have them.Asian countries are different in that they really clamp down on any vision deficiencies extremely early based on a belief that glasses use early in childhood stops future vision degeneration.Forcing someone to use glasses at a young age makes the habit and attachment stronger. I've actually found it to be the opposite for westerners to prefer glasses. Usually people want to move to contacts or surgery ASAP to drop the dysgenic or nerdy appearance. Assuming they needed glasses in childhood or as a young adult. Personal appearance at that stage is much more important than the risks from surgery.Older adults who find themselves starting to wear glasses often don't care about appearance at their point in life. Surgery is often seen as an unnecessary risk and expense compared to glasses which is basically zero.
>>17080105On the contrary, there is a strong tendency to ignore the first few diopters that only matter at night, why bother if people can just blast high powered LED lights. It did genuinely increase.
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>>17080083a lot of people got sudden eye infections that caused myopia
>>17080083There's a difference between farsightedness and nearsightedness. Farsightedness occurs naturally in some people during their elderly years. This affects your ability to see up close like books and what not. But for far distance the eyesight remains the same. These are the glasses used historically and in fact they were originally invented by monks in the Late Middle Ages for this reason. This is the glasses most people, such as Benjamin Franklin, before the Industrial Revolution wore.Nearsightedness is a much more common phenomenon that rises as countries industrialize. In fact there is such a strong correlation between the two, that East Asia went from barely needing glasses to their next generations all needing glasses because of it. As in this society people have much more sedentary lives and spend most of their lives looking at things up close like books, TVs, and what not. And nowadays with bright screens and LEDs and what not this percentage has only increased.As of currently there is no known way to reverse myopia after moving past childhood. The best thing is to get corrective surgery on your own eyes and try to look after your children's eye health (spend time outdoors, look at faraway stuff, limit screen time, healthy sleep schedule). But of course in this very digital world, it's easier said than done.
>>17080083The theory in the medieval ages was that "near work" or staring at things up close made your distance vision worse.The better modern theory is that more time outside is more sunlight exposure, and the more (lightly filtered like through trees) sunlight you get, the better your vision becomes.Stay inside for months with only artificial lighting and your vision gets worse. Get a lot of time outside during daytime and your vision gets better. This probably gets more complicated once prescription lenses and sunglasses come into the mix.
>>17080423>The better modern theoryThe eye focus light, the mind focuses “attention”. Your time outside is changing your mind, not your eyes.
>>17080428Your eyes function with muscles, those develop based on the amount you use them which in turn will influence how well they work in various situations and even alter the shape of the eye in the process.
>>17080083In ye olden days egghead types wore glasses because of years focusing their eyes on something close like books or a board with equations. Now everyone squints at their pocket obelisk a ridiculous amount of time, easily the majority of their waking hours. And they're staring at mind-meltingly retarded social media shit or porn.
>>17080441>you can “develop” your eyes, just like muscles>buy my scam products from the past Moron, at best.More like Regional Snake Oil Sales Leader. Neck yourself.
>>17080382>>17080423>>17080441It's the bone. You should be able to feel that it basically touches the eyeball, if you are nearsighted.
>>17080465Am I feeling this with my bone-feeling sense or my inner-eye-feeling sense?
>>17080473I mean with your finger.
>>17080454You don't need to buy products, you just need to go outside so your eyes have places to focus that are far away. When you are constantly inside there's no where for your eyes to focus that is far away. The micro movements in your eyes constantly scan your field of vision even if you aren't doing anything in particular but that doesn't help if there's walls blocking the way in every direction. Several eye problems can in fact be fixed or treated with eye exercise like misaligned vision. And yes you obviously can develop your eye muscles like muscles, they are muscles.
Just to chime in, I agree with some of the effortpost anons here so far but just to add a few things. In Western society, unless you were a hunter or a soldier or some other profession that required sharp vision at a long distance, there was not much else you needed long-distance sharp vision for. Even people who drove carriages or ride horses didn’t need good distance vision since the horse has eyes and instincts not to do stupid shit. Only since the proliferation of cars that could go over, say about 30 miles per hour (50 km/hr) did it become very important for basically everyone to need good distance eyesight. So it was just normal for people to be nearsighted and squinting, and even for rich people, for things like attending theater or opera they would, for centuries, bring special optics (known as “opera glasses”, picrel)In addition, everyone knows that reading up-close is bad and causes nearsightedness. This was not a big phenomenon until the invention of the printing press. Before Gutenberg’s printing press people, especially children, did not have nearly as big a reason to read up-close and so the printing press greatly increased the rate of childhood nearsightedness
>>17080642The point about driving is pretty important because even very poor distance vision doesn't really impact your life if you don't have to do things like read road signs or white boards from far away. You can only interact with things in hand distance and for almost everything else even very blobby shapes are enough to figure out if you are looking at a tree or a person in a distance for instance. It's school and driving in particular that require good vision because of the need to see text and objects clearly from far away, not merely see that there's something there. And of course with cars you as a non driver also have to spot the cars and see things like which way the car is going with accuracy so you don't get ran over.
>>17080643Yes, absolutely. The fact modern society relies heavily on driving, and also on driving at high speeds (over 60 mph or 100 km/hr) has a lot of weird implications on the modern world. Another to note is that doing so puts people at mortal risks of death, daily, out of necessity and not because of having some personal adversary. Most people in America face a very possible risk of death on a daily basis from e.g. if they are tired or if they drank a little too much. Nothing like this existed before 1930 or thereabouts. If you put yourself in a life-threatening situation it would be either because of occupational hazards that were voluntary, or because you had the balls to do it. Not because your Mom and Dad bought a house where to get to the nearest supermarket requires you to get on the InterstateFor this reason I hope self-driving cars improve more to the point where, for example, eye exams, are not a prerequisite for being able to get where you need to go depending on where you live. This would require self-driving cars to actually start being safer than driving oneself, which sadly, despite this AI “boom” we are in, hasn’t materialized
>>17080641>buy my “eye-weights” and “lift your vision”Regional Leader of Snake Oil Sales
>>17080636>poking you eye-bones with your finger will improve your visionNow I know you are trolling.
>>17080083>why didn't people wear glasses at a time when most of them died before needing themtruly a mystery
>>17080825Of course it won't improve anything, you will just feel it is the cause.>>17080849People need them since their childhood. He seriously looks like he needed them, BTW.
>>17080083>how did something useful become so widely usedTruly a mystery.
one of the most pointlessly retarded threads ive come across, thanks
