Michael Snyder wrote in 2011 the -- "The American Dream":

“Our society is rapidly coming apart at the seams and people are seriously starting to lose it… Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what is right and what is wrong. Way too many Americans seem to be losing all sense of what it means to treat others with dignity and respect… It is almost as if some sort of mental illness is spreading throughout our society that is expressing itself in thousands of different ways. We are seeing anger, rage, malice and brutality rise to very dangerous levels. Our population has become way too greedy, proud, selfish and hateful. America is on a very dangerous road and we need to wake up.”

Back in 1969, a man named Herbert Krugman conducted a series of experiments regarding the effect of television on a person’s brainwaves. What he found was pretty startling:

“Krugman monitored a person through many trials and found that in less than one minute of television viewing, the person’s brainwaves switched from Beta waves — brainwaves associated with active, logical thought — to primarily Alpha waves. When the subject stopped watching television and began reading a magazine, the brainwaves reverted to Beta waves.”

Type ‘television’ and ‘low vibrational energy’ into a search engine, and it’ll quickly return the fact that watching a lot of TV is like undressing your mind and submerging it into a bath of negative energy. TV effectively numbs the left side of your brain and renders you helpless to your right brain which is incapable of decoding and critically analyzing the information being presented to you. Essentially, you go on ‘auto-pilot’.

‘Beta’ is considered a normal, awake state, while ‘Alpha’ waves are experienced in a deep relaxation or ‘daydreaming’ state. When in the Alpha state, a person is subjected to a passive learning experience with the right side of the brain at the wheel, leaving critical thinking skills behind.

Type ‘television’ and ‘low vibrational energy’ into a search engine, and it’ll quickly return the fact that watching a lot of TV is like undressing your mind and submerging it into a bath of negative energy. TV effectively numbs the left side of your brain and renders you helpless to your right brain which is incapable of decoding and critically analyzing the information being presented to you. Essentially, you go on ‘auto-pilot’.

Thus, everyone is put into a hypnotic state that author Wes Moore says, “produces highly functional, mobile ‘bio-survival robots.’” There’s a reason he dubbed television an “opiate of the masses“.

Okay, this is TV. I get it. But, what if people were just as affected by 'Smart' phones and even more? I just went into a Bar-and-Grill and no one there were talking to each other. They sat alone and paged through their cell phones as if it was their only world. What if the 'Smart' phone is the opposite of what it's called and makes you dumb? I'm telling everyone there's something wrong! We all need to socialize. Who's your neighbor? What's his interest? Does that person have knowledge that can help you? In my many years of living I have experienced extraordinary individuals who had skills and knowledge that got buried with the individual when they died. Every elderly person possesses a wealth of history, experiences, and skills we can learn form. I have been ranting about these damn 'Smart' phones for over 10 years. It's preventing a generation of people form learning from their forebears. I watch the kids gathering at school bus stops who never seem to interact with other kids like they did before. Them having "Smart' phones I have literally had to stop my car in the street because these kids were in the middle of the road transfixed on the content of their "Smart' phones. They acted like stray cattle that weren't suppose to be on the road.