Why is modern eyesight so bad? - Is the eye care industry a scam?

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Grub said:
Where is the main wire going into? That's all you need is the 14/2 or whatever wire it is going into the led light.
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Oh, I might have misunderstood, am I supposed to pop the light out first? Is the wire underneath? I guess that makes sense hehe. But I tried removing it and the light seems to be stuck to the ceiling, tried unscrewing it (it's like a thick, disk-shaped thing) and it won't move either. Maybe I should just try to pull it out forcefully but I might mess things up.
 
Does it look like this?
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If so it will just pull out. The two levers hold it in. The box will be inside the ceiling.
 
I don't think it's the screens or even lack of sunlight. I have worked primarily in front of a computer since 2009 and many of my hobbies involve being in front of one, yet have eyesight that is still fit for military service. My guess would be too much strain because I'm never staring at a screen for more than 5 minutes at a time. Possibly undiagnosed ADD causes my eyes to wander
 
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Huh, this thread has been quite enlightening. I suppose it would make sense that increasing screen usage makes your eyes fucked.

I got bad eyesight myself plus a dose of light sensitivity. Been declared "socially blind" and can't get a driver's license. Have to wear dark glasses too. In my case, it's not so much because of screen factors. It's because I am an albino.

I grew up with a lot of people with all kinds of messed up eye disorders and this was before the screen age. Mostly kids with mutated eyes or cancerous eyeballs that needed to be removed or just some genetic defect. That it's on the rise now, is kinda crazy to think of.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
Huh, this thread has been quite enlightening. I suppose it would make sense that increasing screen usage makes your eyes fucked.

I got bad eyesight myself plus a dose of light sensitivity. Been declared "socially blind" and can't get a driver's license. Have to wear dark glasses too. In my case, it's not so much because of screen factors. It's because I am an albino.

I grew up with a lot of people with all kinds of messed up eye disorders and this was before the screen age. Mostly kids with mutated eyes or cancerous eyeballs that needed to be removed or just some genetic defect. That it's on the rise now, is kinda crazy to think of.
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Most eyesight conditions aren't inhibitive for anything more than reading and fine detail; that's also a reason it's spotted more. You don't need the best eyesight to smash a hammer in to metal or mow fields.

When people refer to eye conditions being on the rise they don't mean that there is an increase is cancers, serious blindness, or inhibitive sight afflictions. It's mostly the difference of being able to read font 5 from font 8 at 30cm.

There has never been a connection to screens and long-term eyesight loss; the reason people believed that was due to the misguided fear of old televisions throwing off radiation.

Those it effects is mostly the old too. Cases are rising for serious afflictions in the elderly because humans were never supposed to live as long as we do. In the young it's mostly just slightly less perfect vision that only becomes a serious issue in modern society.
 
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Muttley said:
considering my vision is perfect and I haven't seen an eye doctor since I was 7

yes its a scam
you shouldve ate a lot of carrots as a babeh
I wanted to see like a hawk so I did
now I see like a hawk and you don't

while you were playing nintendo
I was studying the carrot
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I ate so many carrots as a kid for a brief period my skin had an orange tint.
 
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It’s as simple as people who are supposed to wear their glasses don’t; especially people with lazy eyes.
 
I've needed glasses before Kindergarten. I stopped wearing them for a long time, and when I do I'll end up forgetting after a few days and go back to not wearing them. I also used to stare at the sun a lot. Probably unrelated..

Anyways, my eyesight was bad from the start and make sure you wear your glasses (and don't stare at the sun) or it can and will get worse
 
Lack of outdoor time.
You're meant to focus on things in directly front of you and to the horizon, and everything in between. I believe focusing to the horizon is probably the most neglected focusing distance and corresponds with the most degradation.
My eyes improved tremendously when I began hiking regularly (while engaging in optical viewfinder photography, not sure if that matters) and my eyes even got a little better still once I stopped sitting in front of a computer hours each day. Anecdotal I know but I went from being hard pressed to read upcoming street signs to having no problem driving, though this did occur over a period of years mind you. I have read about focusing exercises such as screen door focusing, focus on the screen focus to the distance, repeat. Not sure if it works but in my experience my eyes did improve as I made major lifestyle changes that involved different focusing patterns.

Just my experience I'm not entirely sure how it happened but eyes absolutely went from bad to better.
 
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batterybee said:
"Why is it that my grand parents had good eyesight but the younger generations in my family have to wear glasses."
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The olds in my family were countryside never-indoor types and they're all farsighted.

It's always made me wonder if it's just purely adaptive and whether myopics have better-than-average near distance performance by some metric, since that's never mentioned, but I've never bothered to look into it.
 
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Not enough people perform activities in which their eyes follow objects that travel distances and thus utilize different distances of focus.

This might change if technology, screens, can legitimately force the human eye to focus afar despite looking at a screen near to the observer but I have no idea if that is possible.
 
It's nature feeling sorry for us, helping us to not clearly see what a bunch of dumb, weak faggots our species is becoming.
 
My eyesight remained very good up until I started going to uni, despite the fact I spent a lot of time staring at the screens.
I personally blame the poor lighting in the university and fully agree with "lack of sunlight" as a reason for eyesight issues.
 
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In my case I wouldn't suspect artificial lighting, I had really good eyesight until 10/11yo, when it significandly worsened within months or even weeks, even tho I did not change my reading habits and I did not even have a computer back then and was outside a lot.
On my compulsory checkup 2 years before I could read almost everything except the the smallest line, well, and on the next one I couldn't read even the top letter and even then the GP, going by some methodics, made me try to read all the rest with no success, that was awkward af. It's not like I did not notice, but the change was uneven and I was afraid I gonna get those tard glasses with a patch, so I wanted to delay that moment until it's inevitable. (Didn't get those, thank gods)
 
think about how much time anyone spends looking at something more than ten feet away from themselves. if i dont get any range time for awhile i can tell a big diffrence in how well i can see past the sight, how well i can see downrange, etc.
 
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