Smart Phones and Stupid People by @movingman
We used to read book-like material, nothing else. Things with pages, chapters and endings. The difference is that back then, we would have the thought arise that we wanted to stop reading and go do something else or take a nap, and so we would fold the corner of a page or use a Book Marker and put the book down and go back to it even sometimes days or weeks after.
The apps have no end, or any chapter to decide to stop to take a break, and so we never get to the end of what we were reading and the mind feels it didn't accomplish anything- because it never found the end, and so just like a monkey, it tells you to pick up the phone and start scrolling again to find something interesting to do with Your FREE Time (which everyone complains that they don't have enough of!)
"Ego" means "The image that you have of who you are" and the hardest thing to grasp without going through an amount of suffering, is that we are not that image that we have of ourselves. When I used to look at my Facebook more than once every 2 days as it is now, I was only reading and seeing the egos of people. One day they are posting "im so happy" and the next day "im so sad" or showing off the new car they just got expressing that they are rich, when its actually rented out monthly. I watch people when they take a photo of themselves, posing and adjusting hair even using the screen as a mirror. We transform ourselves into ego every time we post or take a selfie. "Look at me, This is me" the voice in the head says. And then we get a positive or negative reaction from someone " Ah Yeh! You look stunning! " and then that is giving more power to the ego, reinforcing this purely mental image. (It exists nowhere else does it?, did you realize that?) You could say "yes but look there's a picture of me that I just took now", but - in reality its just a picture of a human. Someone might then say "yes that's you!"... - but the question I ask you is - Where did the "me" go to?!
Concentration, Levels of Attention and Creative Thinking.
Since the "Screen Revolution" has started, the average time that we can hold onto a thought (concentrate) is now only 8 seconds. Before we all had screens in our hands (before the year 2000 let's say), we had an attention time of 12 seconds - which leads us at this rate in a decade from now, to having less attention span than a goldfish.
I think they know what they are doing very well, don't you? image
We are using search engines when we have a question and this is making people lazy and stupid. People forget how we used to learn before search engines and internet. You had a subject that you wanted to find out about, for whatever reason, and you went to a Library. I'm only 34 and for me to write that feels like it was 70 years ago that this was happening, because who goes to a library anymore?! Even the people that do just go there to do office work with a laptop in quiet surroundings or research using a search engine and use copy and paste. We would use Thinking Power instead, plus we would read it from paper and print which is proven to be absorbed much more efficiently than when we read from a screen of pixels.
When we become lazy from having too much convenience in life, we are also loosing out ability to be creative. Imagine you decide you want to learn the different names of tree's, what the leaves look like and how the wood looks.
How many people would go buy a book about tree's and then go for the day to a forest to find the trees in the book?
How many people would not even move, and open a window (not for fresh air, I meant a new windows window!) and type in "names of trees" and not even leave the house?
Thinking ends up as STRESS!
If you haven't noticed already that the more you think about something the more it builds up into a "problem" (even though its still just a thought and not a problem at all) and so we can see that thinking creates problems. We all know (I hope) that problems creates the stress we are having more and more off each day. When we are using Smartphone's so often as we do with this morn day habit, we overload our minds with completely useless information, and mostly as I said earlier peoples ego's. This is all we have now as our input these days - endless scrolls of adverts and peoples mental sufferings.
Do you like a challenge??
When you are sat waiting next time somewhere, and that first thought comes that you should check your phone..
Well that is the challenge - To just notice when that thought has arrived!
Sounds not worth doing, but try it and then try it again the next time you naturally remember, you will after some time notice that your mind isn't so "racing".
Here's the post before linked to smart phones and the everyday physical effects on our bodies
And the recent post's
- The Land-Pirate Lifestyle - Recycling\Upcycling Loot in a Rich Country.
- The worst example of mass food waste
- Another New Steemian! The One, The Only @docbud from 420 Mag.com!
- Proton VPN, It's Free and Simple - Perfect for Us Beginners!
When you are sat waiting next time somewhere, and that first thought comes that you should check your phone..
Well that is the challenge - To just notice when that thought has arrived!
Sounds not worth doing, but try it and then try it again the next time you naturally remember, you will after some time notice that your mind isn't so "racing".
Here's the post before linked to smart phones and the everyday physical effects on our bodies
And the recent post's
- The Land-Pirate Lifestyle - Recycling\Upcycling Loot in a Rich Country.
- The worst example of mass food waste
- Another New Steemian! The One, The Only @docbud from 420 Mag.com!
- Proton VPN, It's Free and Simple - Perfect for Us Beginners!
I do not like cell phones and Google. Cell phones makes people act like zombies and the government can track you down and google is pure evil. They control the information. Decentralization is the future.
Whole heartedly agree with you!
We are living in a strange world. Televisions are getting flat while man is getting thick, phones are becoming smarter and people are becoming dumb, people go in car to the gym where they ride on bicycle and the ultimate one-people have lots of friends on social media and their family members don't see each others for many days.
The smarter the phone
The dumber the population
I tell people that all the time!
Sadly, it also makes you more dependent on it....
Thank you for writing this text. I think it was very thoughtfully written and I like it very much.
Why the smartphones? They just hinder you in what you do and make you stupid and lazy. Honestly, I find it more satisfaction having a real book in my hand than a smartphone or laptop. You are not the only one thinking like this and I'm 27. I sold my smartphone and are using an old phone because of the topic you are writing about and that I don't approve that the government is stalking you through the phone like what you are doing on the internet and where you are going. I also think that the government wants to distract you with games, phones, and movies so we don't see what they are doing.
I made a post about an easy vpn to use if you dont already use one, maybe this can help you :)
https://steemit.com/informationwar/@movingman/proton-vpn-it-s-free-and-simple-perfect-for-us-beginners
I don't have that but I'm very interested in it and will look into it even more and the website you wrote about. Thank you for sharing. Another thing I thought about in the VPN post something I learned a few years ago. In Sweden, if you have money in the bank and wish to take it all out you wish for checks without any deadline dates on them because if they have a date you have to change the checks into money and if they update the look on the money you have to turn them in again. If they don't have a date you don't have to turn them in for exchange for the money in a few years. Just thought about it if you don't want to use a card for payment :).
Ah yeh in norway here they just had a new 100 kr and 200kr note, is this what you mean? I find cash useless, unless i want to buy things i think i need but actually don't lol. I haven't been able to work as its so hot so im not earning anything at the moment really, and not sleeping because its so hot so cash is low at the moment! All cash goes on silver or crypto lol :)
Forgot to add, the proton mail thing is very easy to get , and then you can go to the link that I provided and download the desktop vpn :)
Oh, Norway hi there neighbor :). Hmm, I don't think we mean the same thing. Some banks in Sweden you can dispatch your money from your bank account to a paper check which can hold 25 0000 Sek on it, with a sign from the bank.
The government wants you to think that you must have money, work and other "important" stuff in your life. Money is useless. rather use stuff that you can stack like you said silver, gold, crypto or bitcoin :).
Ok, so first the proton mail and later the desktop VPN. How do you think it works? is it good or bad?
That sounds like a head fuck manipulation! Sweden has some mad things there, also tge first company was swedish to microchip the workers hahaha unless thats just a media lie to introduce it to the mass.
With the vpn,yes first get a proton mail account and then download the desktop vpn, you then log in to the vpn window with your new email and the vpn will load. You see when its loaded that it gives instructions,and a free 7 day trial of the paid version.. Its easy,just a button saying connect and you see it change the location of your computer and nobody can see what your looking at ever again. The vpn runs in the background
No idea if we are but wouldn't surprise me bc Sweden wants to be brother good and go in America's footsteps. My feelings for Sweden are like a love-hate relationship. Want to leave but at the same time don't want to leave. i believe that many countries are like this and want its population to think like that. I don't know which country thats the worse in this thou :P
haha, Sweden can't stalk me any longer :P and can do whatever I want. seems like a good investment then and should buy it. Thanks a lot :)
I liked it, i accept this challenge :)
And how did it go @obulunmaz?!
Se debe educar a las personas sobre el uso adecuado de los celulares, CONSIDERO que muchas no deberian tener celulares xq son irresponsables usandolos.
La mejor educación es el no comprar uno de esos teléfonos. Esa basura de tecnología lo que hace es destruir las relaciones humanas y hacernos ver como maquinas. By design!
Great post. There is scientific evidence that states that the human mind has plasticity and will adapt to new ways of thinking. The problem is that, the mind can't discern whether these new ways will have a positive or a negative outcome. I tried using a flip-phone instead of a smart phone, but that endeavor only lasted a few months. The lure of so much information at my finger tips was very difficult to pass on (even if, as you mention, much of that information is useless).
Hi! I can see myself not using internet when the smart grid is up and running 😂 i really hope that somehow there will be an independent internet that is seperate from "the internet of thing's" and we have a chance to avoid and boycott the cancer causing 5G and then soon after 6G.
Nice that you dropped by 😊
Good luck with the tindering =p
Ah its all so fake! But this is where everyone is it seems hahahaha so said, but hey much cheaper than going out to a bar drinking hahahah
Everything is fake! Realness is a precious commodity these days! I think it can be fun, and sometimes you do meet awesome people on there. But I deleted it last year and don't miss it at all. Norway is a small country though so I don't think it's that easy to meet people. Looks like you don't have a choice hahahah
Ah well its different cos your female and, yeh well its just easier in general than a man :) It's so sad here, people are just seprated and even more now with phone's.. if you go out on a weekend is oslo, there's hardly anyone there like in other city's , and when I say this the norwiegens im with say "what do you mean, look its very busy - its the weekend!"
The best place to find action is just to stand on a tram, and then you meet lots of drunk norwiegens going somewhere and they talk! they talk! To strangers, and even hug strangers!!!
Plus if you dont enjoy to go out, its not like there are pubs in every village where people would meet and mix with strangers but here, nobody interacts with strangers. When I asked a few people about how it works they said that people only date people they already know..
So basically you meet and date only people that you meet at a friends dinner party or something.
Ridiculous! And on tinder , well, can you imagine how my profile is?! of cos i could care, but i just don't lol.
It's all about the evolution.
hi :) I used to say Evolution = Devolution, which still makes sense from what im seeing, meaning out natural evolution..
I can recommend checking out the "Time Well Spent" Movement for
even more details on the issue http://humanetech.com/
Thanks for kind-of sharing in a half human\bot manner!
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