Smart Phones and Stupid People

Smart Phones and Stupid People by @movingman

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.

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".

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