"Spend time getting to know yourself and exploring the world around you. It's so much more fulfilling — and so much more real — than the one inside your expensive little box." - teenager Lola Schub
This is all so true... my granddaughter just turned 12 and has her own iPhone. She knew how to swipe through her mom's iPad when she was 2. I'm worried about her, of course. But all the kids in her class have smartphones and it's become a status symbol as well as a peer necessity. I can't intervene, however much I talk to her parents about it.
On a related note, I just got locked out of Facebook after being 'away' for a few weeks. The email and 2FA phone number are no longer working. So... I'm not going back. It's a tremendous relief to sever the ties with that CIA-controlled pathetic monstrosity.
Ex-doomscroller here, been off social media for over a year and am leaning hard towards a flip phone again. The amount of my time and attention I have gotten back is incredible, not to mention my outlook on life. Sure, you could scroll the news and see how it says the world is horrible but every time I go for a walk I experience a beautiful world worth exploring.
There are religious communities and institutions where smart phones are banned. If I didn't need it for business I'd throw it in the garbage. Kids are much better off without them.
OOH, the spirit of true rebellion here! Great article, how heartening to read that kids (who every professional seems to think are unable to make any decisions that might benefit their mental health without them!) are taking things into their own hands. This gives me such optimism. Remember the 100th monkey theory, it doesn't take that large of a percentage for this to flip the collective! Thanks for brightening my morning! I trust kids far more than many; I know they came here with purpose, and they will find their way to it. We need to believe in their innate wisdom and encourage them to practice it.
Thanks for this excellent essay Karen! I restacked it as it goes perfectly with the digital detox and cognitive liberty articles that I have been writing over the last month. It is a perfect post to share with teens (we just listened to the audio version it over breakfast) as part of the ‘Hostage Negotiator’s Guide to Cognitive Liberty’: The first catalyst for change is to lay out the truth and let people make their own decisions. https://schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/p/a-hostage-negotiators-guide-to-cognitive
May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
I'm very encouraged by this report. Smombie describes most people much of the time. The few kids who go Luddite early will have an enormous advantage in life.
PS I'd post it here but it's too gruesome: I came across a video of a man who had a seziure while riding his scooter-- as he lay twitching on the pavement a person walked by, glued to her smartphone, literally didn't even see him, and another person, parked by the side of the road and checking his smartphone, glanced at the twitching person on the asphalt, and just went back to scrolling. It would seem unbelievable except that I see people hyper-enchanted by their smartphones every day, all around me.
Isolated together, or was it lonely together. Maybe, it was tortured together.
In any event, the scamdemic allowed a lot of "nefarious stuff" to surface which has been in the works for decades. One being, digitalizing the entire student population by deploying an assortment of insidious biometric devices:
"IBM has spent at least sixty years collaborating with the AFT and the NEA in order to evolve Skinnerian teaching machines into AI adaptive-learning computers which data-mine students’ psychometrics for Social Credit algorithms that can be monetized, or tokenized, through blockchain passports linked to the internet-of-everything. Now that the adaptive AI learning infrastructure is firmly in place, thanks to COVID lockdowns which have forced schools to install Big Data ed-tech, all that’s left is to hook up these psychometric data to a blockchain passport system."
In the future the logo might be revised to say: "Digitally imprisoned together."
And btw: "IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination. All of this occurred under the micromanagement of IBM’s celebrated CEO, Thomas Watson, Sr., operating from his New York office on Madison Avenue, and later through European subsidiaries. In view of what IBM was able to accomplish on behalf of the Nazis prior to the era of the computer, the thought of what big tech can now do to surveil, censor, and control human lives is sobering indeed."
May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
Cellphones aren't just emotionally numbing; they're also physically harmful. We just don't notice this because the harm they cause doesn't cause PAIN, at least not until it morphs into cancers, etc. https://cellphonetaskforce.org/cell-phones-questions-and-answers-2/ As for schools, they're now outfitted with electronic "smartboards", each giving off its own EMF radiation that's above safe levels, and each student (most of whom already brought their own smartphone to school with them) is equipped with a (wireless) laptop, which is also giving off EMF radiation WAY in excess of safe levels. At least that's how it was (probably still is) in the nice little school in northern Maine at which I subbed--nice if only because the ppl in it weren't FORCED to wear masks. All the teachers I met were wonderful ppl, heroic, even; but their jobs had been almost entirely reduced to keeping the students "on task" filling out their canned studies on those laptops, making sure those laptops were functioning, and babysitting.
May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023Liked by Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek
trashing smartphones, smart wearables is good, NO to 5G /wireless tech infrastructure & EMP radiation toxic to health, kids’ growing bodies in schools & neighborhoods is better.
Smartphones are created to control people, just as the social platforms.
Much more of these technologies were deployed by militar surveillance than we think.
More and more technologie....and less and less education.
Things appear in the world and inmediatly are coopted to dominance and control.
We must stepping back from the technological nightmare before is too late.
This is all so true... my granddaughter just turned 12 and has her own iPhone. She knew how to swipe through her mom's iPad when she was 2. I'm worried about her, of course. But all the kids in her class have smartphones and it's become a status symbol as well as a peer necessity. I can't intervene, however much I talk to her parents about it.
On a related note, I just got locked out of Facebook after being 'away' for a few weeks. The email and 2FA phone number are no longer working. So... I'm not going back. It's a tremendous relief to sever the ties with that CIA-controlled pathetic monstrosity.
We can cheer the kids, but it's up to the adults to serve as an example. Most are failing miserably.
https://loveoffgrid.substack.com/p/none-of-us-is-as-dumb-as-all-of-us
Ex-doomscroller here, been off social media for over a year and am leaning hard towards a flip phone again. The amount of my time and attention I have gotten back is incredible, not to mention my outlook on life. Sure, you could scroll the news and see how it says the world is horrible but every time I go for a walk I experience a beautiful world worth exploring.
There are religious communities and institutions where smart phones are banned. If I didn't need it for business I'd throw it in the garbage. Kids are much better off without them.
Really appreciate this piece Karen , hoping I can use it to broaden my teenagers perspective!
I can’t “like” this post enough! I LOVE it!!♥️♥️♥️
Love that they're paving the way! You made my day. Restacked.
What most of us forget is that blue light itself is an EMF: https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/the-1-emf-youve-forgotten-about
Amen, and hopefully this gets more traction among the youth.
OOH, the spirit of true rebellion here! Great article, how heartening to read that kids (who every professional seems to think are unable to make any decisions that might benefit their mental health without them!) are taking things into their own hands. This gives me such optimism. Remember the 100th monkey theory, it doesn't take that large of a percentage for this to flip the collective! Thanks for brightening my morning! I trust kids far more than many; I know they came here with purpose, and they will find their way to it. We need to believe in their innate wisdom and encourage them to practice it.
Thanks for this excellent essay Karen! I restacked it as it goes perfectly with the digital detox and cognitive liberty articles that I have been writing over the last month. It is a perfect post to share with teens (we just listened to the audio version it over breakfast) as part of the ‘Hostage Negotiator’s Guide to Cognitive Liberty’: The first catalyst for change is to lay out the truth and let people make their own decisions. https://schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/p/a-hostage-negotiators-guide-to-cognitive
I'm very encouraged by this report. Smombie describes most people much of the time. The few kids who go Luddite early will have an enormous advantage in life.
PS I'd post it here but it's too gruesome: I came across a video of a man who had a seziure while riding his scooter-- as he lay twitching on the pavement a person walked by, glued to her smartphone, literally didn't even see him, and another person, parked by the side of the road and checking his smartphone, glanced at the twitching person on the asphalt, and just went back to scrolling. It would seem unbelievable except that I see people hyper-enchanted by their smartphones every day, all around me.
Isolated together, or was it lonely together. Maybe, it was tortured together.
In any event, the scamdemic allowed a lot of "nefarious stuff" to surface which has been in the works for decades. One being, digitalizing the entire student population by deploying an assortment of insidious biometric devices:
"IBM has spent at least sixty years collaborating with the AFT and the NEA in order to evolve Skinnerian teaching machines into AI adaptive-learning computers which data-mine students’ psychometrics for Social Credit algorithms that can be monetized, or tokenized, through blockchain passports linked to the internet-of-everything. Now that the adaptive AI learning infrastructure is firmly in place, thanks to COVID lockdowns which have forced schools to install Big Data ed-tech, all that’s left is to hook up these psychometric data to a blockchain passport system."
In the future the logo might be revised to say: "Digitally imprisoned together."
And btw: "IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination. All of this occurred under the micromanagement of IBM’s celebrated CEO, Thomas Watson, Sr., operating from his New York office on Madison Avenue, and later through European subsidiaries. In view of what IBM was able to accomplish on behalf of the Nazis prior to the era of the computer, the thought of what big tech can now do to surveil, censor, and control human lives is sobering indeed."
https://besacenter.org/ibm-holocaust/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/11/investigative-reports/americas-largest-teachers-unions-push-vaccine-mandates-that-will-usher-in-technocratic-digital-id/
Smartphones are crucial (as surveillance devices) for the eco-biosecuirty regime in the make... "Dumb" is good but it's landlines that rule ;)
Cellphones aren't just emotionally numbing; they're also physically harmful. We just don't notice this because the harm they cause doesn't cause PAIN, at least not until it morphs into cancers, etc. https://cellphonetaskforce.org/cell-phones-questions-and-answers-2/ As for schools, they're now outfitted with electronic "smartboards", each giving off its own EMF radiation that's above safe levels, and each student (most of whom already brought their own smartphone to school with them) is equipped with a (wireless) laptop, which is also giving off EMF radiation WAY in excess of safe levels. At least that's how it was (probably still is) in the nice little school in northern Maine at which I subbed--nice if only because the ppl in it weren't FORCED to wear masks. All the teachers I met were wonderful ppl, heroic, even; but their jobs had been almost entirely reduced to keeping the students "on task" filling out their canned studies on those laptops, making sure those laptops were functioning, and babysitting.
trashing smartphones, smart wearables is good, NO to 5G /wireless tech infrastructure & EMP radiation toxic to health, kids’ growing bodies in schools & neighborhoods is better.