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Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Great read! Yep, our current world is one massive psyop and I’m working on a series on how to combat this psyop. If we focus on these seven core pillars of life, we’ll be able to direct our time and attention (our most valuable resources) towards a resistance against this psyop of life that has one goal: degradation of the human spirit (https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-seven-pillars-of-life)

Thank you for this post! Greatly appreciated!

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Cate Montana's avatar

The vast majority of psychological studies on gaming show that video games increase aggressive behavior and increase negative thoughts and emotions in children, potentially leading to mental illness. They also create a sense of distance from real life and an increasing numbness and lessened concern for others. According to a study commissioned by Common Sense Media, 89 percent of parents across the United States believe violence in today's video games is a problem ... and they do nothing about it. Over 70 percent of parents worry that TV and electronic media screen time are damaging their children’s health and wellbeing ... and they do nothing about it.

And this is normal behavior? No. This is not normal behavior.

Not even the dullest, laziest animal in existence allows their offspring to be harmed. So, why are Western parents consciously allowing this to happen to their children? When apathy and convenience outrank the health of a nation’s children in importance, the only possible explanation for this situation is that the normal caretaking and protective functions in human beings—including parents—are being deliberately switched off.

Skyrocketing increases in the cost of living have ensured that both parents in most families must work. It’s no longer a lifestyle choice. This, of course, means enforced parent-child separation from an early age with the correlative effect of diminished emotional bonding. TV and gaming replace child/parent interaction guaranteeing that bonding diminishes even further with each generation. The violence being pumped over the airwaves, online and in games ensures that the emotional capacity for human connection and empathy is dismantled. Then, of course, there is the diminishment of overall mental health through pollution and chemical additives to our food .... it is indeed a scary scenario .... unless parents wake up and start setting a "media free" example, limiting electronic exposure. etc.

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