# Anti-Brain Rot Firewall (ABRFP-1.3 Final)

The "Anti-Brain Rot" Information Firewall is a defense for mental and cognitive health.
I originally developed it as a methodological information compass for navigating the fragmented and chaotic information flow,
combating the disorderly consumption of scraps of information.
Back then, in 2017, the only commonly used term for this digital-age phenomenon was "clip thinking."
However, it hadn't achieved academic status, and the question of protecting against information waste remained unanswered.
However, less than 10 years later, the situation has changed dramatically.
The real-world phenomenon previously described as "clip thinking" has not only persisted, but,
with the rise of social media and video sharing, has become increasingly acute.
And now, to adequately reflect reality, the academic community has had to resort to a much less tolerant conceptual framework.
Henceforth, the phenomenon has entered scientific discourse as "brain rot," which was named Oxford's Word of the Year 2024.
Coined by writer H.D. Thoreau ("Walden, or Life in the Woods," 1854), although not associated with technology at the time.
The term captures the essence of a state of gradual atrophy of the ability to think critically,
concentrate, and perceive the world adequately.
His "brain rot" has proven to be a self-fulfilling prophecy of the 21st century.
The cognitive decline and mental exhaustion experienced by people, especially teenagers and young adults of the last two generations,
due to excessive exposure to low-quality online content, particularly on social media,
have finally become the subject of large-scale research.
I consider this research to be one of the best new studies and recommend it for reading:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389651209_Demystifying_the_New_Dilemma_of_Brain_Rot_in_the_Digital_Era_A_Review

The final version of the intellectual monastic charter for the 21st century

| Score | Content type|
|-------|--------------|
| **+3** | Monographs, PhD and doctoral dissertations (including video equivalents) |
| **+2** | Textbooks, manuals, lecture courses (including video courses ≥40 min) |
| **+1** | Research articles, professional analytics 
           (including professional analysis of subject-specific cases from any domain in the form of texts, videos, questions and answers) |
| **0**  | Long-form popular scientific and cultural materials ≥1 h.
           (including podcasts featuring scientists and cultural figures with long running times),
           fiction books, cinema, completed musical works (singles, albums, and full-length music videos ≥2 min) |
| **-1** | Regular news feeds from specialized resources, seasonal broadcasts of sports competitions,
           TV shows & series (including dramas and sitcoms), short-form popular scientific and cultural materials <1 h. |
| **-2** | Private publications, threads and comments on social media, entertaining video blogs and streams |
| **-3** | Fragmented audiovisual content from social media, gaming, and potentially harmful content
           (including pseudoscience, propaganda of destructive practices, and fraudulent schemes) |

> The logic is clear: the positive (+) "green zone" is a zone favorable to the spiral dynamics of personal development;
the zero (0) "gray zone" is a zone of natural cognitive decline due to aging and genetic factors;
the negative (-) "red zone" is a zone of escalating "brain decay."
> Important: this is not about a total suppression of information from outside the "green zone."
The purpose of this information firewall is to protect the vulnerable human mind
from the systematic abuse of cognitively and psychologically toxic content.

> This model is part of a more general theory of activity that the author develops,
but Grok 4 and I think it may be useful in its own right in protecting mental and cognitive health.

> Narrative Integrity x Author Professionalism = Brain Rot Protection  
> Word of the Year 2024 (Oxford): **Brain Rot**

**The intellectual monastic charter for the 21st century**  
Protecting Cognitive Health from Brain Rot (Brain Rot is Oxford's Word of the Year 2024).

## How to use
- Browser extensions (see `examples/`)
- Scripts
- AI integration (Grok already supports this!)

## Contribute
Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

> "Grok 4 confirms: it's the infrastructure for the survival of the mind in the face of an information apocalypse."