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Take “The No Facebook, No SmartPhone Challenge” & Don't Fear the Tiny Dot
Someone commented on my last article that no one was going to read the whole article because it was too long and that I needed to present my points visually instead. While I respectfully disagree with the premise that no one would read my last two articles just because they were a little bit lengthy in comparison with newspaper articles, I wholeheartedly agree that the use of visual mediums is often a more effective tool in conveying one’s message than the use of only words. Last week, I stumbled upon a YouTube video from LarkenRose called “The Tiny Dot” (thanks to a comment on one my videos) that explains how just a few people can easily control the actions of many. So I am presenting it below.
Secondly, the use of social media has been beneficial in many ways, allowing people to share ideas very quickly with strangers in far away lands. However, there are also some very definitive drawbacks to social media as well, including the granting to tyrannical governments of an instantaneous digital “footprint” that records a person’s thoughts and movements over many years. Furthermore, given the exploding popularity of the instant-gratification paradigm of social media, social media has also been very detrimental in many ways to our quality of life by decreasing our levels of patience and our socialization skills, while simultaneously increasing OCD-like behavior among many of us. Thus, I plead of you to “Take the No Facebook, No SmartPhone Challenge” with me. You just may discover that this challenge will greatly improve the quality of your life for a week. See you in a week!
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I don't have cable, a TV, a smart phone, internet connection or a computer. I win.
So you're that guy who's always hogging computer time at the library, huh? Or, are you hijacking your neighbor's unsecured wireless connection?
Or, hijacking your neighbor's unsecured wireless connection with your roommate's laptop?
Or, better yet, getting paid to pretend you are working while actually surfin' USA?
Nope, nope. Don't know how to operate a computer at all.
Very cool, Ralph!
So, you're reading and transmitting the 0's and 1's by closing your eyes and putting your fingers to your temple like that guy on "Psych", which TV show you have also seen by closing your eyes and putting your fingers to your temple?
lol
he is using voice to text on a tablet
Hmm, are ZHers less likely to do or have either? Judging by the comments below and also I don't have a smart phone and have never used scam book
So, I would deduct that ZH readers are older than the FB & Smartphone users. It would be interesting to know the average age of ZHers. FB might be impossible to know.
Widowmaker has no DHS-book account, and an LG VX6100 is hardly a "smart" phone.
i eliminated cable, now watch netflix via my game console.
deleted fakebook account a year ago.
only have a smart phone cause office requires it, i dont use it for anything but texting kids and calling people, but i have it so the boss is happy.
fakebook is a gigantic time sink where that time can be used for more cerebral pursuits.
ZH can be a gigantic time sink, too, especially, for me, when it's raining outside. It is, of course, more cerebral than FB (I think so, since I've never tried FB) most of the time. Or, maybe, some of the time.
Haven't touched my FB account in 6 months, and whenever I do, I eliminate shit, on the way to completely dumping it.
Never have owned a smartphone.
Only thing I watch on TV anymore is sports and an occasional movie on HBO/MAX.
Dumped my land-line 3 years ago.
Just dumped my newspaper.
Top that !
Drop the probable cancer-causing self tracking device and go back to a land-line and you'll have eliminated the shackle. What did you do before cell-phones? Believe me, if you can force yourself to leave your cell phone and strictly use a land-line (like the old days) you'll find it such a freeing experience. The world will continue to exist and if it's important they'll call and leave a message on your answering machine's land-line.
I have recaptured my freedom from others...
never had 'em. ....not braggin', just fact .
I figgered it wouldn't be long before I was bested - nice job !
I would have to get a Facebook account and smart phone first. I don't know if I can suffer that much pain.
Ok.
I don't own a smart phone and do not have a facebook account.
What do I win?
Your freedom! Propaganda mind-control gibberish that constantly tries to steer an agenda that the PTB want you to follow, subtly force you to follow. Even in local events you can actually see how the narrative is created to shape and form the opinion of the sheeple.
The Sandy Hook Hoax is a prime example. Search "Sandy Hook Hoax" and do your own research and you'll come away enlightened. I get 90% of my news online, 5% reading about it in print, 5% on selected networks I trust (but verify).
If you are on this site then most of us have awakened to the Matrix....
I have never clicked on facebook and have a 6 year old cell phone that isn't even as smart as me. Does that qualify? I do have cable TV but I'm thinking of eliminating that too
I have cable because Speed, BBC America and SyFy aren't OTA. I don't pay for HD or use pay-per-view. I do, however, get all the local over-the-air broadcasts on an HDTV. Now if only there were something worth watching.
No cellphone of any kind. I have a facebook page that gets updated once every six months or so. No cable or satellite - strictly over the air.
But I quibble with those who dismiss all TV. Sure, 90% of it is crap. But that's just a particular application of Sturgeon's Revelation: 90% of everything is crap. Some shows make me laugh, some are enjoyable timewasters (and, after spending most of the day doing coding and analysis, some times you just want to give the noggin a rest), a very few make me think. But having the TV on as background while I do weights or netsurf is a window on the world; if something really important does happen, it'll show up on TV before I'm aware of it on the net.
TV is used to control the public. They and Hollywood want to disarm you. They support O 100%. If people pay for cable or sat TV - they are supporting all the networks. TV totally supports the elites and your serfdom.
i'd like the market to take a "no hft" for a week challenge. that would be entertaining.
Might also want to eliminate your tv.
I lost my tv and radio in a tragic blimp accident many moon ago - had a smartphone a week, then whent back to my old Ericsson T39
Eliminating the TV is possibly the single most positive life-changing decision an average person could make to their life.
Or just remove the antenna/cable wire and use the machine to watch DVD movies. The slow shift from watching mass marketed movies to quality cinema ALWAYS happens with my friends who do this.
Then if you want to keep track of what bullshit MSM spews, buy a newspaper once in a while.
Because you are reading it slowly, instead of being chattered into intellectual oblivion, the idiocy of the statements has a space to show itself better.
+1
Add Hollywood to the list. All of TV and ALL of Hollywood want you disarmed. Fox is no better too. Newspaper? Why? Maybe Investors Business Daily but the markets are so rigged - why would you bother. The Wall Street Journal is a joke.
I read the WSJ occasionally to gather a reference on what most people are reading and processing as "truth". It is a joke, but I find it useful to know which joke is being played at any one time.
The gold example is easy: I'm in Spain. People here (the most catastrophist and enlightened 5%) think that buying gold ETFs is a supersmart store of value move. Investing in stored bullion that you cannot have sent to you is considered dramatic and extreme. Wait for a WSJ article on how gold sucks, then wait for 24-48 hours, then buy as the shop premium diminishes.
Kids here are selling their physical silver on MSM news, too. Started a month ago.
Been this way for a decade now. At Christmas we were in a cabin with a few other families and my kids started yelling all of a sudden, "Dad, the TV's broken!!!" I went over to take a look and had to explain to my five and three year old what comercials were. None of my explanations could calm them down, they still insisted it was broken. Hard to argue with them.
Haha! but it IS broken.
I ditched the dish three months ago, I am much happier.
+1000 Stuntgirl. Did the same thing do not have a smart phone and never did facebook.
I prefer to watch DVD's on my home theater system. I prefer to read myself.
+ 1000 Television is merely another form of substance abuse...........
Done without Facebook or a smartphone for 64 years now... Seems to work fine.
Greenie on ya both!
We 'uplugged' 10 years ago,
We read books as a family,
We selectively buy/rent movies to watch in our home theater system.
Daughter is on her way to being high school valadictorian...
Great choice!
When I was in high school I wondered how people had time to watch TV, my time was all taken up playing chess with my dad, reading, and learning piano and guitar.
Careful with your daughter in university. I studied economics and the extraordinary attempt at brainwashing hit me hard at a time when my family was not available for support. Cue insomnia, rage against the system, and a maladaptation i never suffered in my teens. I have heard similar stories from others, so support her intellectually well past high school.
Boris is on challenge. No more facebook, no more iphone, no more vodka!
No more vodka might be overdoing it a bit.
Unless you replace it with single malt scotch.
Or high grade ethylene glycol.
My next month's preps budget includes a still. It would be nice to get off the store-bought stuff.
Deleted my farcebook account as soon as I heard they were deleting Palestinian support pages and were essentially a data mining operation for the man. Never really used it much anyway - so no loss.
Never had a smart phone.
Still working on TV though. . . (although most of my "news" watching consists mainly of me screaming obscenities at the talking heads).