I’m now up to April 2019 in terms of integrating my previous articles into larger, master articles such as this one, which is on non-Ionizing radiation as a driver of suicide.
Once I’ve integrated all of those previous articles, I’ll be free to get back to investigative journalism, which, let me tell you, is much more exciting than compiling and editing.
I thank my 38-person mailing list and others on the UK Orgone forum for their patience during this painstaking process.
Once I’ve gotten the “bones” of the articles in place, I can begin working on better and better introductions, and winnowing down the dozens of examples that the master articles currently contain down to a select few.
I’ll add better and better pictures. Better segues between paragraphs. The eventual goal being perfect, highly-impactful articles. Right now, they’re large, highly-repetitive scientific documents, containing the entirety of the body of research I’ve been able to establish to this point.
The value of the Master articles also includes their ability to bludgeon recovering Coincidence theorists with the sheer preponderance of the evidence.
The last step will be cross-referencing between articles. A recent article of mine on decreasing crime documents and analyzes the pace of that change over time. Soon, it will be cross-referenced against another article on fish growth rates over time, and more discoveries will be made. And so on.
Thanks again to everyone for being here.
Non-Ionizing Radiation From Technology is Driving Exponential Increases in Suicide, Regardless of Culture or Geography
“The more data you compile the clearer this will become and I think it’s worth pursuing but just broaching the subject is a pioneering effort.”
Don Croft to Jeff Miller, on technology driven suicide, 2017
“Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.”
Remy de Gourmont
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(Jim Carrey as the Riddler in “Batman Forever”, 1995 - he’s taking in the brain waves his purpose-built set-top box has stolen from unwitting television viewers. They’re kidding, kidding!)
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(The Internet in 1995)
“The shadow of that hyddeous strength, sax myle and more it is of length”
From “Ane Dialog”, by Sir David Lyndsay, describing the Tower of Babel, 1555 (The quote introduces C.S. Lewis’ “That Hideous Strength”, from 1945)
But suddenly the mirror went altogether dark, as dark as if a hole had opened in the world of sight, and Frodo looked into emptiness. In the black abyss there appeared a single Eye that slowly grew, until it filled nearly all the Mirror. So terrible was it that Frodo stood rooted, unable to cry out or to withdraw his gaze. The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.
Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one. But he also knew that it could not see him - not yet, not unless he willed it. The Ring that hung upon its chain about his neck grew heavy, heavier than a great stone, and his head was dragged downwards. The Mirror seemed to be growing hot and curls of steam were rising from the water. He was slipping forward…
‘I know what it is you last saw,’ she said; ‘for that is also in my mind. do not be afraid! But do not think that only by singing amid the trees, nor even by the slender arrows of elvenbows, is this land of Lothlórien maintained and defended against the Enemy. I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!’
From “The Fellowship of the Ring”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
Sauron was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves; his dominion was torment.
From “The Silmarillion”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1977
I rarely remember a book about which I have had such violent arguments. Nobody seems to have a moderate opinion: either, like myself, people find it a masterpiece of its genre or they cannot abide it, and among the hostile there are some, I must confess, for whose literary judgment I have great respect. A few of these may have been put off by the first forty pages of the first chapter of the first volume in which the daily life of the hobbits is described; this is light comedy and light comedy is not Mr. Tolkien’s forte. In most cases, however, the objection must go far deeper. I can only suppose that some people object to Heroic Quests and Imaginary Worlds on principle; such, they feel, cannot be anything but light “escapist” reading. That a man like Mr. Tolkien, the English philologist who teaches at Oxford, should lavish such incredible pains upon a genre which is, for them, trifling by definition, is, therefore, very shocking.
From “At the End of the Quest, Victory”, by W. H. Auden, in The New York Times (22 January 1956)
“He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking. . . . Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings; for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”
From “1984”, by George Orwell, 1949
“Now the Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last. And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them.”
From “The Silmarillion”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1977
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
― Aldous Huxley
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A 2012 article in the American Journal of Public Health noted that more people using the internet is positively correlated to a higher general population suicide rate.
Of the ten lowest smart phone penetration nations, four are ranked “very low” in terms of suicide rate, two are ranked “low”, two are ranked “medium”, and two are ranked “high.” While, of the ten highest smart phone penetration nations, none are ranked “very low” in terms of suicide rate, four are ranked “low”, five are ranked “medium”, and one is ranked “high”.
And so, thus, four of the low-smart-phone-penetration nations have “very low” suicide rates, while, in the high-penetration nations, there are zero “very low’s”. This shows another very strong correlation between smart phone penetration and higher suicide rates.
There are two “medium’s” and two “high’s” in the low-penetration nations, in terms of suicide rates. While there are five “medium’s” and one “high” in the high penetration nations.
This shows another very strong correlation between smart phone penetration and higher suicide rates.
Among problematic cell phone users, suicidal ideation increases by 11.74% and suicide attempts by 28% over those not so afflicted.
Teenagers who spend 5 hours a day on electronic devices are 71% more likely to have suicide risk factors than those with one-hour use. And It was the time spent on the device, not the content, that mattered most.
This clearly shows that the damage from purportedly-harmless non-Ionizing radiation is cumulative and dose dependent, and that “bullying” and any other sort of social media website content have nothing to do with why spending time on said websites is driving exponential increases in suicide by their users.
Web-addicted individuals have a 65% higher rate of psychiatric morbidity.
The suicide rate in the ten highest smart phone penetration nations is 50% higher than that in the ten lowest smart phone penetration nations.
The highest smartphone penetration nation in the world, South Korea, has the worlds highest suicide rate among females and the third highest suicide rate in the wold among males. Salon.com said it was because “South Koreans are under enormous pressure to succeed at work, school and in relationships, and to care for their families”.
Internet addicts have a 47% higher rate of suicidal thoughts within a week, a 23 percent higher rate of lifetime suicide attempts, and a 5 percent higher rate of suicides attempt within a year.
25% of students who used social media for more than two hours per day reported suicidal ideation. Newsweek said “Two Hours of Social Media a Day Linked to Suicidal Thoughts in Teens”.
We have now learned how the rate of suicidal ideation increases with hours of technology use, from 25% at two hours a day, up to 71% at five hours a day.
Heavy internet use is associated with mood disorders, poor sleep quality, low self-esteem, impulsivity, suicide, lower levels of physical activity, and health problems (migraines, back pain, obesity).
Adolescents who spend more time on electronic communication and screens (e.g., social media, the Internet, texting, gaming) and less time on nonscreen activities (e.g., in-person social interaction, sports/exercise, homework, attending religious services) have lower psychological well-being.
Adolescents spending a small amount of time on electronic communication are the happiest.
Psychological well-being was lower in years when adolescents spent more time on screens and higher in years when they spent more time on nonscreen activities, with changes in activities generally preceding declines in well-being.
Cyclical economic indicators such as unemployment were not significantly correlated with well-being, suggesting that the Great Recession was not the cause of the decrease in psychological well-being, which may instead be at least partially due to the rapid adoption of smartphones and the subsequent shift in adolescents’ time use.
Internet-addicted adolescents have higher risks of suicidal ideation and attempts than those without.
Internet addiction is significantly associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempts.
Roughly 20% of smart phone users will become addicted and have serious behavioral problems.
The phone addiction rate among adolescent females is 150% higher among women than among men.
The number of women who use their phones more than 6 hours a day is twice that of men who did the same.
Women aged 45-54 suffer more stress and depression than all other age groups. HR Review said it was due to ““women feeling it is more socially acceptable to talk about how they feel than men”, “the pressures of juggling work and caring responsibilities”, and “menopause”.
Teen suicide in the U.S. decreased from 1990 to 2007.
Psychological well-being (measured by self-esteem, life satisfaction, and happiness) of 8th, 10th and 12th graders in the United States from 1991 to 2016 suddenly decreased after 2012.
Suicide rates in Missouri increased 37% from 1999 to 2018, while in Kansas, they increased 45% during the same time period.
The suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds in the U.S. increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004. “That is certainly a break from trends of the past,” said Ann Haas, the research director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Here’s Ann’s picture:
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(Ann Haas, Research Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention)
I’ve included the grinning Ms. Haas picture so you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist of marginal influence looks like.
You can’t recognize them by their appearance, beyond their almost-continuous use of supposedly “secret” hand signs.
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(Donald Trump and Satanic priest using the same purportedly-secret Illuminist hand sign)
You can only recognize them by the codified, highly-repetitive way in which they speak, and write.
They’re hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth, figuring the rubes would never notice.
You know them only-generally as “the One Percent”. They are the distinct and separate race that we know as “Neanderthal”. They’re all genetically related to one another. It’s a bloodline thing. As any middle schooler knows:
August 5, 2012 - 12 Year Old Girl Discovers All US Presidents Are Related to King John of England
They’re related through the maternal bloodline.
Here’s what you’re supposed to think a Neanderthal looks like:
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(Museum depiction of a grinning Neanderthal)
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(“So Easy, a Caveman Can Do it” ad)
Can you see how they’re smiling? When the cannibalistic, literally-blood-drinking Neanderthal invaded all the nations on Earth Millenia ago one by one, they were not smiling. They actually filed their teeth to points, back in those early days, prior to putting on “civilized” guise.
While this is what a Neanderthal actually looks like:
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(King John I of England, the guy all the US Presidents are related to through their maternal bloodlines)
Apr 17, 2001 — Research leader Dr Rosalind Harding said: ‘It is certainly possible that red hair comes from the Neanderthals.’
2020 - “ScotlandsDNA believes that everyone who carries one of 3 variants of the red-hair gene is a direct descendant of the first redhead ever to have it”
January 31, 2008 - Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor
It’s how the few have controlled the many, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
It’s why the ruling bloodlines of all the nations have the lightest skin.
We’re obviously going to have to recognize and come to terms with this if we’re going to make progress as a species.
But they say that the hardest part of a problem is realizing that you have one.
The New York Times attributed the drastically higher increases in suicide among women 45 to 54 to “a sudden drop in the use of hormone-replacement therapy by menopausal women after health warnings in 2002, higher rates of depression among baby boomers or a simplestatistical fluke.”
Strikingly, the suicide rate for 15-to-19-year-olds in the U.S. increased less than 2 percent during that five-year period, and decreased among people 65 and older. Dr. Eric C. Caine, co-director at the Center for the Study of Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester Medical Center, explained “there is a national support system for those under 19, and those 65 and older, but not for people in between”. Here’s Dr. Cain’s picture:
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(Dr. Eric C. Cain, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Prevention of Suicide, University of Rochester Medical Center)
I’ve included the repugnant Dr. Cain’s picture so you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist in a position of marginal influence looks like. Did you catch the Satanic purple and green outfit he’s wearing?
From 1999 to 2018, the increase in suicide has been twice as large among women as it has been among men. That’s because teenagers who spend 5 hours a day on electronic devices are 71% more likely to have suicide risk factors than those with one-hour use, and also because the phone addiction rate among adolescent females is 150% higher among women than among men. It’s also because the number of women who use their phones more than 6 hours a day is twice that of men who did the same.
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(Happy girls viewing tablet computer)
The suicide rate in the U.S. increased 33% from 1999 to 2017. If we take 1998 as the beginning of “wireless technology”, then a non-ionizing radiation-driven increase in suicide rates appeared just a year later, in 1999.
Suffocation — mostly hangings — as a suicide method increased 89% among the general population from 1999 to 2015, while increasing 157% for white women during that time period. The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why the Washington Post said “experts struggled to pinpoint a reason”.
The suicide rate in the U.S. increased 30% from 2000 to 2018, while the rate for women of all ages increased 50% during that time.
Suicide in the U.S. increased 24% from 2002 to 2017. The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why the Business insider article I got that statistic from said “It’s hard to say for sure, but research has shown that increased rates of financial stress might partially explain why so many more middle-aged Americans turned to suicide during this time period. Women aged 45-64 especially had a significant increase in suicides over the 15-year period.”
The largest increase in suicide is seen in women aged 45-64, the group most addicted to the technology which is driving the suicide.
The suicide rate for white children and teens between 10 and 17 increased 70% between 2006 and 2016.
Suicides of people aged 10-24 increased 59% from 2007 to 2017, from 6.8 per hundred thousand to 10.8 per hundred thousand. The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why the Rolling Stone article I got that statistic from said “Teen Suicide Is on the Rise and No One Knows Why”.
As a bonus, Rolling Stone downgraded the 59% I had to do the math to learn to “teenage suicide rates have increased nearly 56% from 2007 to 2017”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why Ursula Whiteside, a researcher from the University of Washington, said “The truth is anyone who says they definitively know what is causing it doesn’t know what they’re talking about. “It’s a complex problem with no easy answers so far.”
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Ursula Whiteside, Ph.D., Researcher, University of Washington)
I’ve included the monstrous Ms. Whiteside’s picture so you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist in a position of marginal influence looks like.
Suicide among females in the U.S. doubled from 2007 to 2017. The United States is the third highest smart phone penetration nation.
The suicide rate among young women in the U.K. doubled from 2007 to 2017. The U.K. is the 10th highest smart phone penetration nation.
Teenagers who spend 5 hours a day on electronic devices are 71% more likely to have suicide risk factors than those with one-hour use. And It was the time spent on the device, not the content, that mattered most. You can see how the rate of suicidal ideation increases with hours of use, from 25% at two hours a day, up to 71% at five hours a day. That’s why the youth suicide rate in Utah tripled from 2007 to 2017. The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why thesprc.org article I got the Utah statistic from said that Utah officials were “unsure why”. They’re pretending not to know that the rate of suicidal ideation is 12% higher, and the rate of suicide attempts is 8% higher in phone-addicted adolescents.
The youth suicide rate in the United States increased 66% from 2007 to 2014, from 2.4 per 100,000, the lowest in the 1999 to 2014 data set, to 4.0 per 100,000, the highest. That’s an average annual increase of 9.4% per year over each of those seven years.
The youth suicide rate in Utah increased 183% from 2007 to 2014, from 3 per 100,000, the lowest in the 1999 to 2014 data set, to 8.5 per 100,000, the highest. That’s an average annual increase of 26% per year over each of those seven years.
The average annual increase in the suicide rate in Utah from 2007 to 2014 was roughly three times that seen in the United States as a whole during that time period.
The author from sprc.org said the variance was because “Suicide statistics released at the state level and nationally by the Centers for Disease Control routinely lag two to three years behind, at least partly because of the length of time it can take to confirm whether certain deaths were intentional or unintentional.”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― From “Politics and the English Language”, by George Orwell, 1946
The rate at which kids and teens in the U.S. arrived in hospitals due to suicidal thoughts or attempts almost doubled between 2008 and 2015, with the highest increase among adolescent girls. Phone addiction is 10% higher among women than among men.
In April 2009, knowing that social media was driving an exponential increase in suicide regardless of culture or geography, Psychology Today widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Can Social Media Help Prevent Suicide***?***”
Psychology Today is a State propaganda organ, using conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a Psychiatric News article from December 2009 is headlined “Army Trying to Solve Puzzle of RisingSuicide Rates”.
They used “rising” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increase”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The suicide rate for girls and young women in the U.S. continues to rise at a pace far faster than for young males. From 2007-2013, the rate for young females went from 2.2 to 3.4 per 100,000. At that time it was the highest since 1981, when such tracking began.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a New York Times article from February 2008 is headlined “Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers”.
The New York Times is using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with technology to suggest that neither they nor any researcher is aware of the exponentially increasing plague of technology-driven suicide.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a Psychiatric News article from December 2009 is headlined “Army Trying to Solve Puzzle of RisingSuicide Rates”.
Where the author used “rising” because it’s general. They’re trying to blunt your perception of the scope of the technology-driven increase in suicide in the military. “Rise” is also softer than “increase”, and is also a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The State propaganda mouthpiece Psychiatric News is pretending to be “puzzled” about a suicide increase in the military that is in fact driven by technology. They’re using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
Female suicides in Australia increased 26% from 2010 to 2015. The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why Sue Murray, Chief Executive of Suicide Prevention Australia, said "We don’t know why this is occurring.”
The number of US teens who felt useless and joyless increased 33% from 2010 to 2015.
The number of 13- to 18-year-olds who committed suicide increased 31% from 2010 to 2015.
Teen suicide attempts in the US increased 23% from 2010 to 2015. The U.S. is the 7th highest nation in terms of so-called “Smart” phone penetration.
Male overdose deaths in the U.S. increased 124% from 2011 to 2017, from 14,442 to 32,337.
Female overdose deaths in the U.S. increased 83% from 2011 to 2017, from 8,8322 to 15,263.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why an article from Montana’s Missoulian from March 2011 is headlined “Suicide crisis among Indian children, young adults baffles communities.”
The suicide rate among 10 to 24 year old females in the U.K. increased 82% from 2012 to 2018 - almost doubled - to the highest level ever recorded.
Hospitalizations due to suicide attempts among Utah females aged 10-17 were 75.2 per 100,000 from 2012 to 2014.
Hospitalizations due to suicide attempts among Utah males aged 10-17 were 28.2 per 100,000 from 2012 to 2014.
Among 10 to 17 year olds in Utah from 2012 to 2014, hospitalizations due to suicide attempts were more than twice as numerous among females as they were among males.
Emergency Department visits due to suicide attempts among Utah females aged 10-17 were 331.8 per 100,000 from 2012 to 2014.
Emergency Department visits due to suicide attempts among Utah males aged 10-17 were 113 per 100,000 from 2012 to 2014.
Among 10 to 17 year olds in Utah from 2012 to 2014, Emergency room visits due to suicide attempts were roughly three times as numerous among females as they were among males.
Utah’s KUTV2 said “There is no one cause or clear reason why the numbers are rising”. They used “rising” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increase”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a Saint Louis Dispatch article from 2012, headlined “Behind a Rising Suicide Rate, a Struggle for Answers”, said “Suicides have been gradually rising nationally since 2005”, and attributed it to “the recession”, and that ***“***it’s hard to pinpoint reasons.”
They used “rising” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increase”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations all the way back to Babylon, and before. The author hedge a suicide rate that was increasing rapidly and exponentially as “gradually rising”.
In 2012, the National Institute of Health said “There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior.
It’s a bald-faced ruse – it’s not the sociocultural content of the social media app (or the video game) – it’s simply the time spent on the device emitting the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation.
“Influence suicide-related behavior” is Mil-speak for “drive you to take your own life”.
In 2012, the National Institute of Health published an article entitled “Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective”.
Can you see how the headline is completely neutral? There’s no way of know what, in fact, that perspective might actually be. And, since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headline, the author knows that this neutrality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” the phenomenon of technology-driven suicide that I’m documenting here.
The article goes on to say “There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior”.
Can you see how the influence of the Internet and social media can in no way be discerned?
The author has hedged it back from “influence SUICIDE” to influence suicide-related BEHAVIOR”.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a stilltoday.com article fro October 2012 is headlined “Behind a rising suicide rate, a struggle for answers”.
Where the author used “rise” because it’s general. They’re trying to blunt your perception of the scope of the technology-driven increase in suicide. “Rise” is also softer than “increase”, and is also a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The propaganda outlet stilltoday.com is pretending to be “struggling for answers” to a suicide increase that they know is driven by technology. They’re using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a New York Times article from May 2013 is headlined “Baffling Rise in Suicides Plagues U.S. Military”.
Where the author used “rise” because it’s general. They’re trying to blunt your perception of the scope of the technology-driven increase in suicide. “Rise” is also softer than “increase”, and is also a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The New York Times is pretending to be “baffled” by a suicide increase that they know is driven by technology. They’re using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
In a Chinese study from 2014, 21.3% of smart phone users were found to be addicted to their phones.
In 2014, 10% of U.S. adolescents were addicted to their phones. The addiction rate among females was 150% higher than among males. Just two years later, in 2016, 50% of U.S. teens felt addicted to their phones.
Put another way, phone addiction among U.S. teens increased 400% from 2014 to 2016. That’s an average annual increase in phone addiction of 200% per year over each of those two years.
An article from February 2014 said there was “Association between problematic cellular phone use and suicide”.
In the article we learn that 10.54% of U.S. adolescents polled were addicted to their phones. But the fact that the addiction rate among adolescent females was 150% higher was carefully obfuscated. So, I had to do the math. That’s an example of a propaganda technique called “compartmentalization”.
If 10% of U.S. adolescents were addicted to their phones in 2014, and 21.3% of Chinese smart phone users were addicted to their phones in 2014, that’s a rough average of 15% of the populace.
In 2014, 10% of U.S. adolescents were addicted to their phones. The addiction rate among females was 150% higher than among males. Now, I’m no good at statistics. But I just figured out that the phone addiction rate of male adolescents in the U.S. in 2014 was 8%, while the addiction rate among females was 12%. 12% is 150% larger than 8%.
In March 2014, the State propaganda outlet Salon.com explained “Why South Koreans are killing themselves in droves”.
Where “in DROVES” is general. The article is a hit-piece attempting to compartmentalize the phenomenon of technology-driven suicide merely to South Korea.
The article continues: “South Koreans are under enormous pressure to succeed at work, school and in relationships, and to care for their families, fueling an abysmal suicide rate that is the highest in the OECD group of developed countries.”
Where “ENORMOUS pressure to succeed” is said to be driving the plague. It’s a plausible-deniability excuse, put forward because the propagandist knows that many or most readers are eager to grasp any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
The once again general “ABYSMAL suicide rate” obscures the specific statistics of number one in female suicide and number three in male suicide. Finally, “Killing themselves” is put forward as a far less searchable version of the word “suicide”.
An hrreview.com article from April 2014 said that “Women aged 45-54 suffer more stress and depression than all other age groups”.
In the headline, “more” is general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. The author attributed the unspecified increase in stress and depression to “women feeling it is more socially acceptable to talk about how they feel than men”, “the pressures of juggling work and caring responsibilities”, and “menopause”.
Those are all false plausible-deniability excuses, put forward to cover up the technology-driven increase in stress and depression. The propagandist knows that the subconscious of many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
If “there is strong correlation was between internet addiction and anxiety, stress, and depression”, and women aged 45-54 suffer more stress and depression, and women are 150% more addicted to their phones than men, then the fact that women aged 45-54 suffer more stress and depression than all other age groups demonstrably because they are addicted to their phones.
From 2014 to 2015, the suicide rate for teenage girls in Australia rose at a rate 840% higher than the rate for the population overall. Australia has the second-highest smart phone penetration on Earth, at 77%.
Suicides in Massachusetts increased 3.8% from 2014 to 2015, 608 to 631. There was no increase among men. The commonwealth of Massachusetts called the near-4% increase in suicides - all females - an “uptick”. The word uptick means “a small increase”. The article from 2017 that I got those statistics from stated that suicides in Massachusetts had increased 3% in 2015. The suicide rate in Massachusetts increased from 9.0 per hundred thousand in 2014 to 9.3 per hundred thousand in 2015. That’s a 3.3% increase, not 3%, as stated. There were 631 suicides in Massachusetts in 2015, compared with 608 in 2014. That’s a 3.8% increase, not a 3% increase, as stated. The author called the near-4% increase in suicides in an “uptick”.
Uptick - noun - a small increase
If 8% of U.S. male adolescents were addicted to their phones in 2014, and 12% of female adolescents in the U.S. were addicted to their phones in 2014, and 21.3% of Chinese smart phone users were addicted to their phones in 2014, that’s a rough average of 16% of the international populace that were addicted to their phones in 2014, then roughly 14% of the international populace was addicted to their phones in 2014.
According to a 2014-15 survey in Taiwan studying the line between suicide and internet addiction noted that the prevalence rate of internet addiction among 1,100 respondents (mostly female) was 10.6 percent.
If we map this in to the previous figures (21.3%, 12%, 8%), we get a new average of roughly 13% of the international populace being addicted to their phones in 2014.
An article from April 2014 said that “Women aged 45-54 suffer more stress and depression than all other age groups”. The author attributed the unspecified increase in technology-driven stress and depression to “women feeling it is more socially acceptable to talk about how they feel than men”, “the pressures of juggling work and caring responsibilities”, and “menopause”.
The number of women and girls who killed themselves in the U.S. increased 16% in 2015. The biggest increase was among women ages 45 to 54.
We learned just previously that phone addiction among U.S. teens increased 200% in 2015. At those rates, every one percent increase in phone addiction led to an 8% increase in suicide.
If 12% of female adolescents in the U.S. were addicted to their phones in 2014, and smart phone addiction drives suicide, and the number of women and girls who killed themselves in the U.S. increased 16% in 2015, then every 1% increase in smart phone addiction drives a .75% increase in suicide.
Thus far, the metrics are showing us that smart phone addiction increases suicide by .75% to 8%.
CNN said that suicide “hit a 40-year peak” among older teen girls in 2015, with “peak” falsely implying that the rate had hit its high point and fallen, or would fall after.
An article from 2015 from the National Institute of Health wrung its hands and asked “Why is depression more prevalent in women***?***”
The NIH iS using conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to assert it has no idea that technology is driving depression and suicide, particularly among the group most addicted to it.
Suicide among older teen girls in the U.S. was at its highest level in history in 2015.
The suicide rate for teenage girls in Australia rose at a rate 840% higher than the rate for the population overall in 2015. Australia has the second-highest smart phone penetration on Earth, at 77%.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why an article from the U.S. from 2016 is headlined “First Rise in U.S. Death Rate in Years SurprisesExperts.”
An article from 2015 from the National Institute of Health widened its eyes to simulate honesty, wrung its hands and asked “Why is depression more prevalent in women?”
The NIH is an Organ of the State, using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to assert it has no idea that the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we collectively refer to as “technology” is driving exponential increases in depression and suicide.
In July 2015, Newsweek said “Two Hours of Social Media a Day Linked to Suicidal Thoughtsin Teens”
Where “linked to” is general. The article continues: “Teenagers who use Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for more than two hours per day are more likely to report suicidal thoughts, psychological distress and rate their general mental health as poor according to a recent study.” Where, just as in the headline, “MORE likely to report suicidal thoughts” is general.
The propagandist from Newsweek is doing everything they can to hedge, generalize and defray, under the false guise of being an impartial investigative journalist.
I had to look up a separate article to learn “The study found that teens who are on social media for more than two hours a day, a full one-quarter of students in the study, report poor self-rated mental health, psychological distress, suicidal ideation or unmet need for mental health support.”
25% of students who used social media for more than two hours per day reported suicidal ideation. If we define using social media for more than two hours per day as addiction, then every 1% increase in phone/web addiction drives a .25% increase in suicide. We’ve now learned that phone/web addiction drives an 8% to 25% increase in suicide.
These are, of course, the roughest possible numbers (drawn from just two examples), however this is how science works.
In 2016, knowing that smartphones were driving an exponential increase in suicide, AJ Siegel wrote an article in the American Medical Journal entitled “Suicide Prevention by Smartphone”. Say what you will about them, there’s no quit in these people.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why a Business Insider article from April 2016 is headlined “A stunning 24% rise in suicides has hit the US, and there’s no easy fix.”
And it’s why the article goes on to say “It’s hard to say for sure, but research has shown that increased rates of financial stress might partially explain why so many more middle-aged Americans turned to suicide during this time period. Women aged 45-64 especially had a significant increase in suicides over the 15-year period,”
Business Insider is a State propaganda organ, pretending that they have no idea that technology is driving the exponential increases in suicide that they would only generally describe as “stunning” and “significant”. The word “stunning” is positive spin that brings to mind a beautiful woman, in the midst of an article about beautiful women killing themselves in droves because of their phones.
“Increased financial stress” is a false plausible-deniability excuse, put forward to cover up the exponential, technology-driven increase in suicide. The propagandist at Business Insider knows that the subconscious of many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In 2016, NBC News was said “Suicide rates are rising among young girls, study finds”. Where the author used “rising” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increasing”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
They tacked “study finds” on the back end of the headline to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but that was just one study!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
The article continues: “Donna Ruch, a researcher at Nationwide Children’s Center for Suicide Prevention and Research, said “It’s not just numbers. We’re seeing a trend. But we don’t have good information about what is driving this shift.”
Donna and NBC News are, yes, conspiring with one another, both using conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to affirm that neither she nor anyone else has any idea that the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we euphemistically refer to as “technology” is driving exponential increases in suicide among young girls.
Here’s Donna’s picture:
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(Donna Ruch, Researcher, Nationwide Children’s Center for Suicide Prevention and Research)
I’ve included Ms. Ruch’s photograph so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist in a position of marginal influence looks like.
In April 2016, the Washington Post said that the U.S. suicide rate has increased “sharply” since the turn of the century, led by an “even greater rise among middle-aged white people, particularly women”.
Where “sharply” and “even greater” are both general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. The author is downplaying and obfuscating the magnitude of the technology-driven increase in suicide in the U.S., particularly among middled aged white women.
The author from the Washington Post used the word “rise” as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
In July 2016, The Anika Foundation published an article entitled “Explaining The Rise In Youth Suicide”.
Where the author used “rise” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increase”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. That’s why the article continues to say “But Remember;. First, the overriding data-versus-theory issue that should always be kept in mind is this: whatever your theory of youth suicide is, it must be consistent with explaining why it’s rate of incidence is rising so strongly over time. A puzzle indeed.”
The Anika Foundation is a propaganda outlet, pretending to be “puzzled”, and blunting insight into the magnitude of the technology-driven increase in youth suicide.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “unsure”. That’s why an sprc.org article from July 2016 said “Utah officials unsure why youth suicide rate has nearly tripled since 2007”.
The state propaganda organ sprc.org is using conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to assure you they have no idea that the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we collectively refer to as technology drove a tripling of the youth suicide rate from 2016 to 2017.
In 2017, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for the second consecutive year.
In 2017, teen smartphone use was linked to depression and suicide.
In 2017, suicides passed homicides as the leading cause of death for teens in the U.S.
In 2017, knowing that smartphones were driving an exponential increase in suicide regardless of culture or geography, the National Institute of Health widened its eyes to simulate honesty and described “Mobile Apps for Suicide Prevention: Review of Virtual Stores and Literature”.
The National Institute of Health is a Trusted Authority Figure, using conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
In 2017, knowing that smartphones were driving exponential increases in suicide, S.H. Jang wrote an article in Science Magazine entitled “smartphone application to screen for depression and suicide. Say what you will about them, there’s no quit in these people.
In April 2017, NBC News widened its eyes to simulate honesty and said “The suicide rate for teen girls is the highest it’s been in 40 years — Is social media to blame***?***”
In April 2017, the National Institute of Health said that there had been an “increase” in suicides and child mortality in Greece “during the crisis”.
Where “increase” is general. As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. “During the crisis” is a false plausible-deniability excuse, put forward to cover up the technology driven increase in suicides and child mortality in Greece. The propagandist knows that the subconscious of many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
The National Institute of Health is using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
In August 2017, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “The suicide rate for teen girls is the highest it’s been in 40 years — Is social media to blame***?***”
It’s a bald-faced lie – it’s not the sociocultural content of the social media app (or the video game) – it’s simply the time spent on the device emitting the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation that is driving exponential increases in suicide regardless of culture or geography.
The propagandist from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is attempting to “compartmentalize” the suicide driver merely to social media.
In August 2017, the U.K.’s Guardian widened its eyes to simulate honesty and told of “The first social media suicide”, to protect the collective social media engine driving an exponentially increase in suicide regardless of culture or geography.
The New England Journal of Medicine is using conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
In October 2017, NBC News widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Is Social Media Contributing to Rising Teen Suicide Rate?”
Well, to contribute to something is certainly very positive spin! They used “rising” because it’s softer than “increasing”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “startled”. That’s why a berkeley.edu article from October 2017, headlined “The “Scourge of South Korea”: Stress and Suicide in Korean Society” says “For years, social scientists have puzzled over why this economically successful state has such startlingly high suicide rates.”
Where “Scourge”, “SUICIDE in Korean Society”, “social scientists” and “STARTLINGLY high” are all general. The propgandist from Berkeley who masquerades as an academic has used a pile of hedging generalities to hide “South Korea’s female suicide rate is the highest in the world, and among males there it’s the third highest”.
The college professor writing the article also pretends that they and other only-generally-described “social scientists” are all “puzzled” and “startled” about what you, me, and they all know is technology-driven suicide. The ruse is carefully played in the headline that the South Koreans are “stressed”, but we known not by what, nor do we know how stressed, particularly, they are, or why.
Korea has highest smartphone ownership rate in the world. In 2017, 72% of South Korean children owned their first smart phone by the time they turned 12. In February 2018, Wikipedia said “Compared to other OECD countries, South Korea’s female suicide rate is highest with 15.0 deaths by suicide per 100,000 deaths according to the suicidal rate list, while the male suicide rate is third highest with 32.5 per every 100,000 deaths.”
In October 2017 the New England Journal of Medicine asked “Are Suicide Attempts Increasing***?*** They’re questioning whether suicide rates a third higher than those in 1999 have, in fact increased.
The New England Journal of Medicine is an Organ of the State, using conscious deception with the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.
In November 2017, the Centers for Disease Control said that increased hours online were correlated with an “uptick” in teen suicides.
Uptick - noun - a small increase
Given that we just learned that youth suicides in Utah tripled from 2007 to 2016, I think we can agree that “uptick” is, er, incorrect in its description of the tripling as a “small increase”.
The folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including the magnitude of the increase in technology-driven suicide among young people in Utah.
In November 2017, the Washington Post said “Teen suicides rise with smartphone, social media use”, and that “A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm.”
The author said “a STUDY shows” to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but that was just one study!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In November 2017, kidsmatter2us.org said “Teen Depression, Suicide are Way Up”, and that “Overall, suicide risk factors rose significantly after two or more hours a day of time online”.
In November 2017, the New York Post said “Rise in teen suicide connected to social media popularity: study”.
Where they used “rise” because it’s general, and because it’s softer than “increase”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations all the way back to Babylon, and before.
The author used the endorphin-squirt-triggering “popularity” to make it seem like the problem lies in the world view of those who love social media. Versus the truth, that it is the cumulative hours logged on the site, not its content, or one’s feelings about that content, that causes one to wish to take their own life. They tacked “study” on the end to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but that was just one study!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In the case of web-based technologies, I believe there is a demonic-possession element in play. With the constant use of passwords being part of the chain of actions asking and leading the entity in.
In November 2017, the Washington Post said “Teen suicides rise with smartphone, social media use”, and that “A study shows that suicide rates among teenagers have risen along with their ownership of smartphones and use of social media, suggesting a disturbing link between technology and teen self-harm.”
Where the author used “rise” and “risen” because they’re general, and because they’re softer than “increasing”, and also as a thinly-veiled reference to the Atonist Black-Sun cult that’s ruled things in all the nations, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before.
In 2018, life expectancy in the U.S. decreased for the third consecutive year.
The words “mystery”, “baffled” and “puzzled” are memes, used, among numerous similar variants, whenever anyone in the wholly-controlled-and-coopted Political, Academic, Scientific and Media establishments wants to lie about, well, basically anything. One of those variants is “disturbed”. That’s why an NPR article from January 2018, headlined “Teen Suicide Linked to Smartphone Use” referred to “A disturbing increase in teen depression and suicide is being linked to their use of smartphones.”
In March 2018, USA Today said “Teen suicide is soaring. Do spotty mental health and addiction treatment share blame***?***” Well, if that’s true, then why is a WebMD article from December 2016 headlined “Drug Use by U.S. Teens Drops to All-Time Low”?
It’s not true. USA Today is using conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to falsely assert that drug addiction is driving teens to kill themselves. I’ve exposed USA Today’s duplicity through what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
The fact is that it is the purportedly harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we collectively refer to as “Technology” that is causing teen suicide to “soar”. Can you see how the propagandist from USA Today use the positive word “soaring” to describe the highest suicide rates ever seen, in all history?
The purportedly harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we collectively refer to as “Technology” is driving an exponential increase in suicide, regardless of culture or geography. That’s why an NPR article from May 2018 is headlined “Study links phones to increase in teen suicides”.
Can you see how “increase in teen suicides” is general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the positive change I’m documenting here.
The author tacked “study” on the front end to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, but that was just one study!” The propagandist from NPR knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In May 2018, the U.K.’s Guardian widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Aresmartphones causing more teen suicides***?***”
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(Man and woman on smart phones ignoring one another)
In September 2018, xxlmag.com said “Kanye West Believes Social Media Causes Suicide”. They wrote the headline that way to give the subconscious of the reader the green light to say “oh, that Kanye West will believe anything!” The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
Xxl Mag has written what in the Intelligence trade is known as a “hit piece”, desperately trying to “compartmentalize” the suicide driver merely to social media. Versus the truth, that it is driven by purportedly-harmless non-Ionizing radiation in all its forms.
In July 2018, Neuroscience widened its eyes to simulate honesty and said “RisingTemperatures Could Increase Suicide Rates”.
Global Warming, ah, mirth, is there anything it can’t do?
The propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw, no matter how thin, to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In November 2018, Smithsonian Magazine said “US life expectancy drops for third straight year due to drug use, suicides”.
I’m sure you recall the WebMD article that we just reviewed from December 2016 headlined “Drug Use by U.S. Teens Drops to All-Time Low”.
Smithsonian Magazine is using conscious deception while maintaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty to falsely assert that drug addiction is driving teens to kill themselves. I’ve exposed their duplicity through what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
In December 2018, the U.K.’s Independent lied brazenly “Smartphones could be behind a drop in teen drug use”. Can you see how “a drop in teen drug use” is general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the positive change I’m documenting here.
As a bonus, the author walked the general “drop in teen drug use” back to the more-minimal “adrop in teen drug use”, to imply that it was a one-time exeption, in one place.
In January 2019, an article I can no longer locate said “Apple’s iPhone sales fell 15% amid warnings about China”.
Where “warnings about China” is a general plausible-deniability excuse, put forward to keep your eyes off the fact that smartphone sales are decreasing exponentially regardless of culture or geography.
They used the general word “fell” in place of the stronger (although still general) “dropped” or “decreased” as a thinly-veiled reference to the fallen Lord Lucifer
In March 2019, Mother Jones widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Why Is Teen Suicide Up?”
Can you see how “suicide up” is general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the increase in technology-driven suicide that I’m documenting here.
In March 2019, medicalxpress.com said “U.S. Deaths From Suicide, Substance Abuse ReachRecord High”.
Can you see how “record high” is general? As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda. Since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, this hedging generality goes a long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the increase in technology-driven suicide that I’m documenting here.
Where “Reach record high” implies they’ve gone as high as they can, and won’t go higher. You “reach” a goal. Reaching a goal is positive.
In March 2019, NPR widened its eyes to simulate honesty and asked “Can Too Much Time Online Make You Depressed?”
The propagandist from NPR knows that, since sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, a large subset of them will take the carrot of answering “no!”, and turn the page, because many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
In fact, the article is about the scientific fact that spending time online makes you depressed.
The article continues: “A study published Thursday in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology finds the percentage of U.S. teens and young adults reporting mental distress, depression and suicidal thoughts and actions has risen significantly over the past decade. While these problems also increased among adults 26 and older, the increase was not nearly as large as among younger people.” Can you see how “risen significantly” is general?
The author is doing whatever they can to “compartmentalize” awareness of the phenomenon they’re purporting to be be reporting on.
After inserting a smoke-blowing, hand-waving paragraph in hopes that the reader will stop reading, the author gets to the data: “They found the rate of individuals reporting symptoms consistent with major depression over the past year increased 52 percent in teens and 63 percent in young adults over a decade. Girls were more vulnerable than boys. By 2017 one out of every five teenage girls had experienced major depression in the last year.”
Major depression in young adults that increased by two thirds from 2007 to 2017, which the author described as “depressed” in the headline, and “risen significantly” in the body text.
The author continues: “Rates of psychological distress, which Twenge describes as “feeling nervous, hopeless or that everything in life is an effort” rose by 71 percent among people aged 18 to 25. Suicidal thoughts, plans and attempts also increased. Death from suicide increased by 56 percent among 18- to 19-year-olds between 2008 and 2017.”
We can now see they’ve led with “depression”, which is the mildest symptom, followed it with “psychological distress”, and buried “suicide”, the most severe symptom, to the last.
As far as what’s driving those, er, symptoms, we finally get to “It’s not just the phone or social media itself, says Twenge. It’s the amount of time teens and young adults spend with it. As Twenge found in earlier research, the more time they spend, the greater the risk of depressive symptoms.”
It’s the time spent on the device, not the content. It’s the purportedly-harmless non-ionizing radiation from what we collectively refer to as “technology” that’s driving the exponential increase in suicide, not the addictive Candy-Crush content, of whatever, er, stripe, that compels people to consume it.
In March 2019, healthline.com said “Smartphones linked to increased depression rates”. Did you notice that “increased depression rates” is general?
Even though the article documents the fact that smartphones are linked to increased rates of depression, psychological distress and suicide, the author omitted the latter two from the headline. That’s because the propagandist from Healthline knows that sixty to seventy percent of readers only read the headlines, and such an omission goes a very long way toward “compartmentalizing” awareness of the scope of the increase in technology-driven suicide that I’m documenting here.
The author continues: “Although previous studies have reported an uptick in adolescent depression and suicide over much of the past decade, Twenge wanted to know if the trend was affecting all ages or just young people. Researchers hypothesized that the growing incidence of serious depression and related deaths primarily is occurring within a particular age group rather than being a function of growing older or a phenomenon that people of all ages are experiencing.”
Where a 52 to 63% increase in depression and a 56% increase in suicide is referred to only-generally as an “uptick”.
Uptick - noun - a small increase
The author walks “related suicides” back to the more-general “related deaths”.
The researchers hypothesized that technology-driven suicide “is occurring within a particular age group rather than being a function of growing older or a phenomenon that people of all ages are experiencing”.
No. That’s not what they hypothesized. They hypothesized that increased technology use led to increased depression and suicide, not that young people were offing themselves in exponentially higher numbers because they were, you know, young.
But the propagandist knows that many or most readers will grasp virtually any straw to remain off the hook of personal responsibility.
