First off, why don't those school systems simply BAN the use of cell phones during class hours? Why is it that everyone wants to sue someone else for their own idiocy. It's the GUN manufacturers fault! It's the LAWN MOWERS or SEARS fault not the moron that picked it up to trim his hedges with it. After all it had to have a instruction manual the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica to tell you what NOT to do with it. Do not use your lawn mower for removing naval lint. Do not use your lawn mower to trim your eyebrows. Do not use your lawn mower to trim your toe nails...It's BEYOND ludicrous. It's EVERYONE else except for the IDIOTS that do what they do. There is NO WAY that the tech companies HI JACK anyone! It's done by your own free will. No one came to my house and put a gun to my head and said, Hey Mark, we want you to write on Substack. Or we demand you watch tic tock. Playing the blame game is getting to be SOOOOOOOO moronic as to be MORONIC. And blaming anything on "capitalism"? Seriously? We haven't had CAPITALISM in the US for over 100 years. We have CRONY capitalism. You pat my back I'll pat yours. Capitalism has no restraints besides the people in a free market. Communism has lots of them. If you actually take the TIME to look at the system we are living under today in the US and the West in general, it isn't capitalism. It's a form of COMMUNISM. Let's get it right for once. Blame the man in the mirror instead of the rest of the world. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Better yet, and a much more intelligent and non knee-jerk reaction, sue the main stream media, especially the publicity funded CBC. They are the ones that are corrupting not only the easily impressionable minds of children, but also those adults that are easily gullible to the nonstop brainwashing, fear porn manipulation, the ongoing censorship, and sensationalist biased narratives that are nothing more than pure propaganda.
Actually the button to change the channel works well for me Or the OFF button. If I'm getting impressed by the MSM it's not their fault. It's MINE. So I guess if I get "manipulated" by their bullshit propaganda I should sue myself.
i think that although, as you have outlined, many reasons can be found for kids being glued to their devices, not all causes are equal and the problem is not necessarily a cumulative one. Personally i believe childhood vaccinations are the primary cause, and that if children did not receive the massive amounts of toxins (i.e. adjuvants) within a short period of time, during their critical developmental period, that all the other factors like the distraction tactics of Big Tech, would not have the effect they do. Andrew Wakefield first showed the connection between overburdened childhood vaccination schedules and autism and this connection has been supported by other studies. When you have an autistic child who is essentially disconnected at their soul level and, in effect, operating at arms length to life itself, all the other effects from digital distraction, the heavy metals in their diet, and the prevalence of EMF in their environment, will then act to magnify that fundamental disconnection.
Without the primary autism problem, the high vitality children naturally possess at that stage in life, would assert itself and they would be drawn towards life-affirming pursuits instead of falling into a need to continually check their phone. Even though the digital reality has become more sophisticated now, the 80s and 90s also had video games, and although you could say there was some addiction to them, there was also a prevalence of interest in outdoor activities like skateboarding and BMX biking. However, since the 90s the childhood vaccination schedule has been greatly expanded and the autism rate has skyrocketed. Even w/o having a clinical autism diagnosis many children may still bear debilitating effects of toxins present in vaccines they are made to get.
i believe we shouldn't be afraid to be conspiracy theorists, because unless we acknowledge that stance, we will not see the truth in what is being done to us. Children are being deliberately made autistic. Then they are given a respected place in society as "neuro-diverse" while further conceptual structures are being created for "Human 2.0". Everyone should be respected simply for being human.
They want us to be overcome by options -- could it be digital distraction, high EMF or vaccines, as the culprit ? While we're overwhelmed we do nothing to stop them. Maybe the distraction by Big Tech is not the fundamental problem, but it is a start. So kudos to all the school boards for going after Meta et al. At the same time, we should be going after unnecessary childhood vaccinations.
"the high vitality children naturally possess at that stage in life, would assert itself and they would be drawn towards life-affirming pursuits instead of falling into a need to continually check their phone. " So what is the excuse for the ADULTS at the gym who can't put the stupid device down. What is the excuse for the IDOITS that will literally walk into you on a sidewalk while using the device or better yet out into the path of a BUS and get run over and of course it's the manufacture of the bus that needs to be sued. SCOTTY...BEAM ME UP! There is no intelligent life on this rock. Vaccinations are an issue obvious to any thinking person, but it isn't the reason that kids are stuck on their phones. Take the damn thing away and after they have their temper tantrum toss them in the trash.
Maybe it's because they incorporated a small amount of Black Goo into all the flat screens on all the devices, which makes us all irresistibly drawn to them so that we can't stop doing it ? i was surely compelled to immediately post my rebuttal to your comment as soon as i got an e-mail about it on my device. But then i realized that agree with you -- it is the idiots connected to their devices, including me, that are the real problem. Just God save the children, because once we stop this nonsense and make all devices illegal, the children will still be autistic and functioning at arms length to life.
Except for the fact that the vaccination schedule is the major issue when it comes to poisoning young lives with toxic influences and the result being autism
. And yet, I have a five year old grandson that can't put down the device he plays games on all the time who has never had a single vaccine. Certain things are simply addictive in their very nature. I found myself addicted to a card game, the name I can't recall on my computer and just had to stop it cold turkey. It boils down to being in self control.
You can't make the device illegal. That would be a direct violation of freedom of choice. But there could be a rule to leave them in your locker at school.
We need to simply get folks to understand that there are more things in life.
Some folks may claim that I'm addicted to practicing with a pistol or rifle. I do it ever day I can for at least 20-50 rounds. But there is a purpose behind it...being prepared for the time you may have needed the practice.
Yes, i know what you mean about stopping addiction cold turkey. In the early 80s i was playing space invaders on the microcomputer i had at work when my boss came in. Although he didn't give me shit, i made a resolution at that point to never play video games ever again because they are a waste of time, which i have kept.
The trouble is that all these things are part of the agenda that is coming from the highest level and any efforts to mitigate the harms, will be averted. It's like the 'war of drugs' scam -- it has an intended purpose that is definitely NOT getting rid of illegal drugs.
i don't use a cellphone, due to the radiation and tracking, but have ethernet connected laptops.
Still i think that vaccination is a primary problem, since it changes the person at a deep level. We can always give up pharmaceuticals, devices etc. through our willpower, but autism impacts at the body/soul level.
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. There is another major piece of the puzzle: all of today's wireless tech was brought to market with no biological safety testing. It uses 2-way radiofrequency microwave radiation to send our signals and data back and forth. The FCC, which is supposed to protect us, is reported by Harvard Law School Center for Ethics to be captured by the telecom industry. The FCC has been sued for ignoring 11,000 pages of scientific and medical evidence of harm yet they continue to ignore the court order to bring public radiation limits in line with the science. Wireless emissions cause not only cancer and DNA damage, but infertility, anxiety, depression, cognitive impairment, anger, headaches, insomnia and much more. It is a neurotoxin and immunosuppressant. Children, with their still-developing brains and bodies, are especially vulnerable to microwave radiation. We teach the facts twice a month in free public service webinars. A little education goes a long way, there is much you can do TODAY to stay connected and protected. Please join us, and share: https://www.ma4safetech.org/events. Thanks for your time and consideration.
i'm with you on stopping the wireless radiation, together with WiFi in schools and everywhere. The Children's Health Defense organization started by presidential candidate, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has been mounting legal challenges to the way this radiation threat is being ignored in American society https://childrenshealthdefense.org/legal_justice/emr-litigation-efforts/ This goes for most of the world too. Arthur Firstenberg shows how wireless radiation is decimating birds, insects, and all wild animals across the planet https://cellphonetaskforce.org/newsletters/ He also documents the massive effect satellites like those put up by Musk's StarLink are having on human health, most noticeable when they are all turned on at once.
Yes, we can mount all kinds of public awareness and legal challenges, but the problem is that essentially all these campaigns fall on deaf ears since they attack what people themselves are addicted to. i live in a valley where there is no cell signal and have the WiFi turned off on my router and connect my computers over ethernet. Also i have signed Firstenberg's pledge to never own a cellphone. Unless people take these extreme measures too, we will continue to fight an uphill battle, an increasingly steep uphill battle. This must be the message put out, or otherwise people will just fall back into complacency despite being aware of the dangers -- give up your cellphone and permanently disable your WiFi !!! or it will always be too little too late.
It is really the same as what the 12 Step Program does with any addiction -- you need to give up your own power as the 1st step. In this case it is the power you hold through your devices, primarily your cellphone. Your power over your own life is being controlled by those devices while you only think they are just conveniences. Meanwhile they track all your activity including where you are geographically at any moment. Sure it's not easy to do away with them, but it must be done. Otherwise the power those devices have via the consciousness subduing radiation, and then the propaganda coming over those devices, plus over television and ads everywhere, about how you can't do without them, as well as subliminal psychological manipulation built into the signals, plus all the peer pressure -- will continue to assert itself. Giving them up cold turkey like you do with heroin, is the only way. As well as on-line seminars to bring awareness about the dangers of radiation, there should be seminars about dealing with the withdrawal -- how to live and thrive w/o a cellphone.
Love your perspective. I come for a story about schools suing these social media companies and you give a deep look at other "drivers" as you said. I love that. We need this. The world is going in circles trying to solve problems. I was sad to hear you guys don’t have the funding anymore to do this full time, my hope is you can get it again because the world needs what you guys do so much. 🙏
First off, why don't those school systems simply BAN the use of cell phones during class hours? Why is it that everyone wants to sue someone else for their own idiocy. It's the GUN manufacturers fault! It's the LAWN MOWERS or SEARS fault not the moron that picked it up to trim his hedges with it. After all it had to have a instruction manual the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica to tell you what NOT to do with it. Do not use your lawn mower for removing naval lint. Do not use your lawn mower to trim your eyebrows. Do not use your lawn mower to trim your toe nails...It's BEYOND ludicrous. It's EVERYONE else except for the IDIOTS that do what they do. There is NO WAY that the tech companies HI JACK anyone! It's done by your own free will. No one came to my house and put a gun to my head and said, Hey Mark, we want you to write on Substack. Or we demand you watch tic tock. Playing the blame game is getting to be SOOOOOOOO moronic as to be MORONIC. And blaming anything on "capitalism"? Seriously? We haven't had CAPITALISM in the US for over 100 years. We have CRONY capitalism. You pat my back I'll pat yours. Capitalism has no restraints besides the people in a free market. Communism has lots of them. If you actually take the TIME to look at the system we are living under today in the US and the West in general, it isn't capitalism. It's a form of COMMUNISM. Let's get it right for once. Blame the man in the mirror instead of the rest of the world. https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style
Better yet, and a much more intelligent and non knee-jerk reaction, sue the main stream media, especially the publicity funded CBC. They are the ones that are corrupting not only the easily impressionable minds of children, but also those adults that are easily gullible to the nonstop brainwashing, fear porn manipulation, the ongoing censorship, and sensationalist biased narratives that are nothing more than pure propaganda.
Actually the button to change the channel works well for me Or the OFF button. If I'm getting impressed by the MSM it's not their fault. It's MINE. So I guess if I get "manipulated" by their bullshit propaganda I should sue myself.
It's interesting to note that many of the top tech billionaires send their children to Steiner schools and restrict their use of mobile devices.
No, they are using COMMON SENSE.
Sadly, common sense isn't very common...
i think that although, as you have outlined, many reasons can be found for kids being glued to their devices, not all causes are equal and the problem is not necessarily a cumulative one. Personally i believe childhood vaccinations are the primary cause, and that if children did not receive the massive amounts of toxins (i.e. adjuvants) within a short period of time, during their critical developmental period, that all the other factors like the distraction tactics of Big Tech, would not have the effect they do. Andrew Wakefield first showed the connection between overburdened childhood vaccination schedules and autism and this connection has been supported by other studies. When you have an autistic child who is essentially disconnected at their soul level and, in effect, operating at arms length to life itself, all the other effects from digital distraction, the heavy metals in their diet, and the prevalence of EMF in their environment, will then act to magnify that fundamental disconnection.
Without the primary autism problem, the high vitality children naturally possess at that stage in life, would assert itself and they would be drawn towards life-affirming pursuits instead of falling into a need to continually check their phone. Even though the digital reality has become more sophisticated now, the 80s and 90s also had video games, and although you could say there was some addiction to them, there was also a prevalence of interest in outdoor activities like skateboarding and BMX biking. However, since the 90s the childhood vaccination schedule has been greatly expanded and the autism rate has skyrocketed. Even w/o having a clinical autism diagnosis many children may still bear debilitating effects of toxins present in vaccines they are made to get.
i believe we shouldn't be afraid to be conspiracy theorists, because unless we acknowledge that stance, we will not see the truth in what is being done to us. Children are being deliberately made autistic. Then they are given a respected place in society as "neuro-diverse" while further conceptual structures are being created for "Human 2.0". Everyone should be respected simply for being human.
They want us to be overcome by options -- could it be digital distraction, high EMF or vaccines, as the culprit ? While we're overwhelmed we do nothing to stop them. Maybe the distraction by Big Tech is not the fundamental problem, but it is a start. So kudos to all the school boards for going after Meta et al. At the same time, we should be going after unnecessary childhood vaccinations.
"the high vitality children naturally possess at that stage in life, would assert itself and they would be drawn towards life-affirming pursuits instead of falling into a need to continually check their phone. " So what is the excuse for the ADULTS at the gym who can't put the stupid device down. What is the excuse for the IDOITS that will literally walk into you on a sidewalk while using the device or better yet out into the path of a BUS and get run over and of course it's the manufacture of the bus that needs to be sued. SCOTTY...BEAM ME UP! There is no intelligent life on this rock. Vaccinations are an issue obvious to any thinking person, but it isn't the reason that kids are stuck on their phones. Take the damn thing away and after they have their temper tantrum toss them in the trash.
Maybe it's because they incorporated a small amount of Black Goo into all the flat screens on all the devices, which makes us all irresistibly drawn to them so that we can't stop doing it ? i was surely compelled to immediately post my rebuttal to your comment as soon as i got an e-mail about it on my device. But then i realized that agree with you -- it is the idiots connected to their devices, including me, that are the real problem. Just God save the children, because once we stop this nonsense and make all devices illegal, the children will still be autistic and functioning at arms length to life.
Except for the fact that the vaccination schedule is the major issue when it comes to poisoning young lives with toxic influences and the result being autism
. And yet, I have a five year old grandson that can't put down the device he plays games on all the time who has never had a single vaccine. Certain things are simply addictive in their very nature. I found myself addicted to a card game, the name I can't recall on my computer and just had to stop it cold turkey. It boils down to being in self control.
You can't make the device illegal. That would be a direct violation of freedom of choice. But there could be a rule to leave them in your locker at school.
We need to simply get folks to understand that there are more things in life.
Some folks may claim that I'm addicted to practicing with a pistol or rifle. I do it ever day I can for at least 20-50 rounds. But there is a purpose behind it...being prepared for the time you may have needed the practice.
Yes, i know what you mean about stopping addiction cold turkey. In the early 80s i was playing space invaders on the microcomputer i had at work when my boss came in. Although he didn't give me shit, i made a resolution at that point to never play video games ever again because they are a waste of time, which i have kept.
The trouble is that all these things are part of the agenda that is coming from the highest level and any efforts to mitigate the harms, will be averted. It's like the 'war of drugs' scam -- it has an intended purpose that is definitely NOT getting rid of illegal drugs.
i don't use a cellphone, due to the radiation and tracking, but have ethernet connected laptops.
Still i think that vaccination is a primary problem, since it changes the person at a deep level. We can always give up pharmaceuticals, devices etc. through our willpower, but autism impacts at the body/soul level.
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. There is another major piece of the puzzle: all of today's wireless tech was brought to market with no biological safety testing. It uses 2-way radiofrequency microwave radiation to send our signals and data back and forth. The FCC, which is supposed to protect us, is reported by Harvard Law School Center for Ethics to be captured by the telecom industry. The FCC has been sued for ignoring 11,000 pages of scientific and medical evidence of harm yet they continue to ignore the court order to bring public radiation limits in line with the science. Wireless emissions cause not only cancer and DNA damage, but infertility, anxiety, depression, cognitive impairment, anger, headaches, insomnia and much more. It is a neurotoxin and immunosuppressant. Children, with their still-developing brains and bodies, are especially vulnerable to microwave radiation. We teach the facts twice a month in free public service webinars. A little education goes a long way, there is much you can do TODAY to stay connected and protected. Please join us, and share: https://www.ma4safetech.org/events. Thanks for your time and consideration.
i'm with you on stopping the wireless radiation, together with WiFi in schools and everywhere. The Children's Health Defense organization started by presidential candidate, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has been mounting legal challenges to the way this radiation threat is being ignored in American society https://childrenshealthdefense.org/legal_justice/emr-litigation-efforts/ This goes for most of the world too. Arthur Firstenberg shows how wireless radiation is decimating birds, insects, and all wild animals across the planet https://cellphonetaskforce.org/newsletters/ He also documents the massive effect satellites like those put up by Musk's StarLink are having on human health, most noticeable when they are all turned on at once.
Yes, we can mount all kinds of public awareness and legal challenges, but the problem is that essentially all these campaigns fall on deaf ears since they attack what people themselves are addicted to. i live in a valley where there is no cell signal and have the WiFi turned off on my router and connect my computers over ethernet. Also i have signed Firstenberg's pledge to never own a cellphone. Unless people take these extreme measures too, we will continue to fight an uphill battle, an increasingly steep uphill battle. This must be the message put out, or otherwise people will just fall back into complacency despite being aware of the dangers -- give up your cellphone and permanently disable your WiFi !!! or it will always be too little too late.
It is really the same as what the 12 Step Program does with any addiction -- you need to give up your own power as the 1st step. In this case it is the power you hold through your devices, primarily your cellphone. Your power over your own life is being controlled by those devices while you only think they are just conveniences. Meanwhile they track all your activity including where you are geographically at any moment. Sure it's not easy to do away with them, but it must be done. Otherwise the power those devices have via the consciousness subduing radiation, and then the propaganda coming over those devices, plus over television and ads everywhere, about how you can't do without them, as well as subliminal psychological manipulation built into the signals, plus all the peer pressure -- will continue to assert itself. Giving them up cold turkey like you do with heroin, is the only way. As well as on-line seminars to bring awareness about the dangers of radiation, there should be seminars about dealing with the withdrawal -- how to live and thrive w/o a cellphone.
YEP! How does it feel to be a guinea pig on Planet Bizarro?
Love your perspective. I come for a story about schools suing these social media companies and you give a deep look at other "drivers" as you said. I love that. We need this. The world is going in circles trying to solve problems. I was sad to hear you guys don’t have the funding anymore to do this full time, my hope is you can get it again because the world needs what you guys do so much. 🙏
What we need is some COMMON SENSE! Seems to be a pretty rare commodity these days.
https://www.courageouslion.us/p/common-senserevisited-part-one
Saw this too in a post the other day and was pretty sad to hear that my fav outlet is falling. Been following since the CE days!!