“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I can’t believe that this is the first time that I’ve used this Schopenhauer quote in an article. Actually, I think I did, back on the Etheric Warriors forum.
If you want to get happy, scroll down to the pictures below of “the Luddite Club”, in Brooklyn, New York. It’s a group of now-16 young people who have ditched their so-called “smart” phones.
To level-set, I first bought a cell phone in 2002. It wasn’t even a flip phone - that gee-whiz invention would come along in a bit. It was an early mini-brick Nokia, and very much a status symbol. However, I quickly ditched it. Partly because I knew that only assholes whipped out their cell phones in restaurants. But, mostly, because I could feel it heating the side of my skull.
It would be twenty years before a fast-growing brain tumor killed my beloved Aunt.
On Oahu in 2005, a girl at a party learned that I didn’t have a cell phone, and said “you’re my hero!”.
It would be until 2006 until I was browbeaten into getting another, a flip phone. That was long before the young people in Brooklyn were born.
To this writing in 2023, I’ve never owned a so-called “smart” phone. This despite intense social pressure, and being offered them multiple times for free, with free data plans. Yes, even a $1,000 next-generation iPhone, in champagne gold.
In Pittsburgh in 2012, I was in the Strip district, sitting in my 1965 Buick, windows down, talking on my flip phone in front of a band of young musicians who were busking on the sidewalk. One of them nodded and said admiringly “dude, rockin’ the flip phone!”
Looking at the pictures below, for me it’s easy to see that we’re turning the corner, now.
Perhaps it won’t be another twenty years before everyone accepts the self-evident fact that we need to get out from under the thumb of an ancient generational Satanist sham Democracy.
THE DATA
In 2015, smartphone addiction among Indian female secondary school adolescents was 142% greater, or well more than double what it was among their male counterparts (92% vs. 38%)
In 2015, phone addiction among Indian secondary school smartphone owners was 100% greater, or double what it was among flip phone owners (38% vs. 19%.)
In 2015, 92%, or virtually every last Indian female secondary school adolescents were addicted to their smartphones.
In 2015, 38% of Indian male secondary school adolescent smartphone owners was addicted (104 of 276).
In 2015, 19% of Indian secondary school adolescent flip phone users was addicted (26 out of 140).
In 2015, 38%, or well less than half of Indian male secondary school adolescents were addicted to their smartphones.
In 2022, those who used their smartphones five to six hours per day had an addiction rate 978% greater than those with the lowest hours of use.
In 2022, those using their smartphones three to four hours per day had an addiction rate 479% greater than those with the lowest hours of use.
In 2022, the increase in the addiction rate among those who used their smartphones five to six hours per day was 104% greater, or double what it was among those who used them three to four hours per day (978% vs. 478%).
In 2015, 38% of Indian secondary school adolescent smartphone owners was addicted (104 of 276).
In 2022, 70% of those polled were addicted to their smartphones.
THE ARTICLES
In December 2022, the New York Times said " ‘Luddite’ Teens Don’t Want Your Likes".
Can you see how the headline deviously omits any mention of the word “smartphone”? That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
It also puts those Luddite teens into conflict with the reader. Versus a headline such as “Teens Ditch Smartphones to Improve Mental Health”.
The article goes on to say “Many of them were staring at their smartphones, but not Logan, the 17-year-old founder of the Luddite Club.”
The article is behind a paywall. Here’s the picture from it:
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In December 2022, ny.chalkbeat.org said “The anti-social network: These teens are ditching Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok”.
Can you see how the headline deviously omits any mention of the word “smartphone”? That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
It also puts these “anti-social” teens into conflict with the reader. Versus a headline such as “Teens Ditch Smartphones to Improve Mental Health”.
Here’s a photo from the article:
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(Logan Lane, flanked by Odille Zexter and a laughing Biruk Watling, plays guitar at a Luddite Club meeting in Prospect Park. Vee Delacruz and Jameson Butler, in a cap, are at right. Prospect Park is just up the hill from my old apartment in Park Slope, in Brooklyn.)
Logan Lane was 11 when she got her first smartphone. Like many kids, she started using Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.
On December 31, 2022, nature.com published “Smartphones dependency risk analysis using machine-learning predictive models”.
Where first author Claudia Fernanda Giraldo-Jiménez wrote the title in a general way where you cannot divine that the study is about exponentially increasing addiction among smart phone users. That’s an example of the propaganda techniuque known as “compartmentalization”.
The study went on to say “The data analyses indicated that 70% of the participants presented smartphone dependence.”
dependency is more pronounced (74.1%) in those who used it for the first time more than six years ago.
having a data plan increases the probability of developing smartphone dependency by 50%,the likelihood of developing smartphone addiction is proportional to the number of hours of use (3–4 h: OR = 5.79; 5–6 h: OR = 10.78)17. Indeed, the risk almost doubled for those using the device for 5–6 h compared to those with fewer hours (i.e., 3–4 h per day)"
In 2022, those using their smartphones three to four hours per day had an addiction rate 479% greater than those with the lowest hours of use.
In 2022, those who used their smartphones five to six hours per day had an addiction rate 978% greater than those with the lowest hours of use.
The increase in the addiction rate among those who used their smartphones five to six hours per day was 104% greater, or double what it was among those who used them three to four hours per day (978% vs. 478%).
Nikhita, C. S., Jadhav, P. R. & Ajinkya, S. Prevalence of mobile phone dependence in secondary school adolescents. J. Clin. Diagn. Res. 9, 6–9 (2015).
In November 2015, J Clin Diagn Res. published Chimatapu Sri Nikhita’s Prevalence of Mobile Phone Dependence in Secondary School Adolescents.
In 2015, 92%, or virtually every last Indian female secondary school adolescents were addicted to their smartphones.
In 2015, 38%, or well less than half of Indian male secondary school adolescents were addicted to their smartphones.
In 2015, smartphone addiction among Indian female secondary school adolescents was 142% greater, or well more than double what it was among their male counterparts (92% vs. 38%).
Jeff Miller, Libertyville, IL, January 7, 2022
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