THE ATLANTIC: How Smartphones Are Destroying A Generation | |
Larry D. Croc
User ID: 70736097 United States 10/11/2017 03:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An outstanding post, thanks for sharing it. "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it." Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75141601 United States 10/11/2017 03:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
LilMiss
User ID: 45545917 United States 10/11/2017 03:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75660542 United States 10/11/2017 03:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43802839 United States 10/11/2017 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72027138 United States 10/11/2017 03:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 53452662 Canada 10/11/2017 03:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Blaming phones for the mental woes of a generation is like AIDS-infested gays blaming glory holes for their disease. With or without phones, each generation will get successively more mentally and spiritually diseased, just as with or without glory holes, gays will get AIDS. This is the truth that will not be believed, but it is the truth nevertheless. Get rid of phones, and the next generation will still be more diseased than the last. Things are getting worse, not better, and that includes people. Things and people will perpetually get worse. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75678023 Belgium 10/11/2017 04:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75128128 Belarus 10/11/2017 04:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43305570 United States 10/11/2017 04:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Malu nli
User ID: 34857257 United States 10/11/2017 04:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When this EMP hits and knocks out all the electricity, all these people addicted to their phones will turn into zombies. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43802839 it will be the best thing that ever happened to them, probably also the ones who will eventually reject technology the most if they can live past the initial shock |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75681316 Romania 10/11/2017 04:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
AncientWreck
User ID: 28357844 United Kingdom 10/11/2017 04:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74579112 United States 10/11/2017 04:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74898141 United States 10/11/2017 05:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74574432 Canada 10/11/2017 05:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Useless Cookie Eater
User ID: 74441620 United States 10/11/2017 05:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75430204 Australia 10/11/2017 05:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
darkwolf007
User ID: 16293783 United States 10/11/2017 05:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | When this EMP hits and knocks out all the electricity, all these people addicted to their phones will turn into zombies. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43802839 No. You're quite inaccurate, AC. Most people with cellphones are so hopelessly addicted to their cellphones. They are already zombies. Take away their cellphones and they'll become extraordinarily violent, hateful, and blindly rage at anything and everyone around them. The first hour may not yield much results in such a successful EMP attack as those very same electronics addicts start to wake up and realize everything that was their's is no longer their's and is just really expensive paperweights now, then as the panic sets in that their whole lives have just been literally deleted from the Internet as far as they can tell. As their panic intensifies to the point of becoming irrational people they have to blame someone. Because they're reduced to themselves and their families now they're going to blame someone close to them for the average Joe and Jane. For people like us on this forum, depending on how sane and intelligent you are as well as prepared for this eventuality you may just bug-out and that'll be the end of that non-existent conversation. But for those of us who are broke and unable to afford such luxuries you may find yourself having to communicate with those unsavory average Joes and Janes simply because they'll continue to put you down and even become violent towards you. You'll then become their new scapegoat because of their irrational need to blame someone. Because they're reduced to themselves and/or their families they can't comprehend much more reality greater than the tips of their noses. You as the local "conspiracy theorist" will be branded as someone to literally murder to restore the electricity. As far as these average Joes and Janes are concerned your death will mysteriously bring back all of their electronics back to life. Why? Good luck reasoning with these rapidly increasingly more irrational people. Regardless if these average Joes and Janes can murder you or not at some point their irrationality will shatter into literal insanity. Even if these average Joes and Janes could be reasoned with at all while they were still pretty irrational they won't be whatsoever once they've become insane. Even if they get new working electronics after they've gone insane they'll destroy the new electronics and/or worse. Why? There's no possible way to know for sure due to you being sane and them being insane. So in the end you're vastly better off away from the masses in such a successful EMP attack, or be consumed by the masses within a few days' time or sooner. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73568352 United States 10/11/2017 05:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for posting, Doc. |
darkwolf007
User ID: 16293783 United States 10/11/2017 05:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. I saw this video sometime last week, Useless Cookie Eater. Very depressing to watch as I remember back in the 1990's Pop Music was fairly good to listen to such as Aqua's Barbie Girl. You can literally feel underneath the good music there was something dark and insidious there, but it was weak and easily dispersed, for me anyways. Then I've listened to some of Lady Gaga's music on JackFM due to their DJs playing her songs time to time. There's something dark and insidious that IS one with most of her songs. I personally believe that's why Lady Gaga is such a "goddess" to many, many Pop Music lovers out there. People who are dead on the inside who will attach themselves to any Pop song and artist who can successfully reverberate at their ever decreasing vibrations... Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
Doc Savage
(OP) Senior Forum Moderator 10/11/2017 05:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is an old article either reposted on here or at atlantic.i remember it from a couple years back. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 43305570 You're mistaken, AC. The Atlantic article (from their September '17 issue)was adapted from the author's new book, "iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us" which was just published a couple of months ago. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75655814 Germany 10/11/2017 05:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. Who wants to hear a stupid brit hailing overrated beatles as the height of music. |
darkwolf007
User ID: 16293783 United States 10/11/2017 05:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. Who wants to hear a stupid brit hailing overrated beatles as the height of music. It's an analytical video, AC. If you watched it you'd know that. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
Doc Savage
(OP) Senior Forum Moderator 10/11/2017 05:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. I saw this video sometime last week, Useless Cookie Eater. Very depressing to watch as I remember back in the 1990's Pop Music was fairly good to listen to such as Aqua's Barbie Girl. You can literally feel underneath the good music there was something dark and insidious there, but it was weak and easily dispersed, for me anyways. Then I've listened to some of Lady Gaga's music on JackFM due to their DJs playing her songs time to time. There's something dark and insidious that IS one with most of her songs. I personally believe that's why Lady Gaga is such a "goddess" to many, many Pop Music lovers out there. People who are dead on the inside who will attach themselves to any Pop song and artist who can successfully reverberate at their ever decreasing vibrations... You're spot-on, darkwolf -- today's pop music is mostly soulless and repulsive. A case in point: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75655814 Germany 10/11/2017 05:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. Who wants to hear a stupid brit hailing overrated beatles as the height of music. It's an analytical video, AC. If you watched it you'd know that. It's probably music more and more catering to females. Also one of the reasons the internet has turned to shit, sine they had access to smart phones. |
Sunman
User ID: 21056728 United States 10/11/2017 05:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Useless Cookie Eater
User ID: 74441620 United States 10/11/2017 05:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. I saw this video sometime last week, Useless Cookie Eater. Very depressing to watch as I remember back in the 1990's Pop Music was fairly good to listen to such as Aqua's Barbie Girl. You can literally feel underneath the good music there was something dark and insidious there, but it was weak and easily dispersed, for me anyways. Then I've listened to some of Lady Gaga's music on JackFM due to their DJs playing her songs time to time. There's something dark and insidious that IS one with most of her songs. I personally believe that's why Lady Gaga is such a "goddess" to many, many Pop Music lovers out there. People who are dead on the inside who will attach themselves to any Pop song and artist who can successfully reverberate at their ever decreasing vibrations... You're spot-on, darkwolf -- today's pop music is mostly soulless and repulsive. A case in point: I would not call Aqua's "Barbie Girl" as a shining pillar of good music from the past either. lol That was more of an omen of the nasty soul-less crap coming around the bend. That 3 note thing is in all kinds of music today too. ...and you will hear, which he never actually mentions is the 2 note flip-flop in "C" which they use in so many commercials. It's two notes on a piano going back and forth... "do-do"..."do-do"..."do-do"..."do-do"....over and over the entire commercial. It's so Millennial / iGen. When you hear it....you will know it. it's like they all graduated from the same music school, or class, and have no independent artistic thoughts of their own. It's the same as the Millennial "wau-wau-wau" garbage notes new pop in just about every song out there. Mindless herd following sheep. They are a lost generation. Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 10/11/2017 05:48 PM |
darkwolf007
User ID: 16293783 United States 10/11/2017 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. I saw this video sometime last week, Useless Cookie Eater. Very depressing to watch as I remember back in the 1990's Pop Music was fairly good to listen to such as Aqua's Barbie Girl. You can literally feel underneath the good music there was something dark and insidious there, but it was weak and easily dispersed, for me anyways. Then I've listened to some of Lady Gaga's music on JackFM due to their DJs playing her songs time to time. There's something dark and insidious that IS one with most of her songs. I personally believe that's why Lady Gaga is such a "goddess" to many, many Pop Music lovers out there. People who are dead on the inside who will attach themselves to any Pop song and artist who can successfully reverberate at their ever decreasing vibrations... You're spot-on, darkwolf -- today's pop music is mostly soulless and repulsive. A case in point: Upon seeing the thumbnail for that Pop song, OP, didn't even click to watch it really, I felt this exactly: Seriously though, OP, I don't even really like to listen to that type of crap anymore since it's something that likes to proactively stick with you. It's as though once you start hearing the newer Pop songs the more they go out of their way to make you like then absolutely love those songs then before you know it you're a mindless Pop star idol worshiper. No thanks on that insanity. Though thanks for chiming in, OP. Conspiracy Theorist is nothing more than a derogatory title used to dismiss a critical thinker. A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us." -- St. Anthony The Great Social Credit Loser here. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75655814 Germany 10/11/2017 05:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's a very similar study in why real music has died. Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Once again....blame the low attention span Millenials and iGen types for that via their smartphones. Very interesting. ....especially the 3 note "wau-wau-wau" thing.....SOOOOO true. I saw this video sometime last week, Useless Cookie Eater. Very depressing to watch as I remember back in the 1990's Pop Music was fairly good to listen to such as Aqua's Barbie Girl. You can literally feel underneath the good music there was something dark and insidious there, but it was weak and easily dispersed, for me anyways. Then I've listened to some of Lady Gaga's music on JackFM due to their DJs playing her songs time to time. There's something dark and insidious that IS one with most of her songs. I personally believe that's why Lady Gaga is such a "goddess" to many, many Pop Music lovers out there. People who are dead on the inside who will attach themselves to any Pop song and artist who can successfully reverberate at their ever decreasing vibrations... You're spot-on, darkwolf -- today's pop music is mostly soulless and repulsive. A case in point: Who do you think listens to Justin Bieber? It's females. We basically are living in a society where everyting is catering to females. |