[euroderf]

> Does it correlate with being susceptible to cults, group think and parroting other people’s ideas like a consumer rather than synthesizing your own?

It's known that being deluged with information tends to suspend one's own critical faculties in attempting to cope with the flow. Perhaps internet life, by tending to crowd out one's own thoughts, contributes to a sense of loss of will.

People who emerge from an "internet cleanse" seem to be refreshed in a way that might be interpreted as the regaining of will, of freedom to formulate.

Or I might be full of balonie.