UK Column News Finding Beauty and Living Authentically | Jerm Warfare
Mar 13, 2026
A reflective chat about living authentically and reconnecting with nature. They explore worries about technology and AI eroding attention and skills. Conversation covers concerns over overmedication and medicated food chains. Practical remedies include reviving hands-on crafts, disciplined tech use, regenerative farming, and shifting from passive consumption to active creation.
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Convenience Tech Is Eroding Observation Skills
- Modern convenience technologies are dulling cognitive skills and observational awareness.
- Charles and Jerm link GPS, AI and always-on devices to people missing local signs, which helped fuel 2020 compliance and wider susceptibility to narratives.
Practical Skills Support Mental Resilience
- Loss of practical skills and physical practices reduces resilience and cognitive engagement.
- The hosts tie fading letter-writing, cursive, and hands-on crafts to weaker motor skills and diminished mental richness.
Medication Prevalence Mirrors Societal Conditioning
- High national rates of antidepressant prescriptions may be linked to social conditioning and over-medication across food and agriculture.
- Jerm and Mike cite ~24% US women and rising UK rates, and discuss medicated livestock and antibiotics in farming.