Social Engineering

Talking with my friend Keith tonight about my earlier blog. He mentioned something about how much the young were missing. I know they have so many things to distract them -- distraction, that's what passes too often for entertainment/stimulation/fulfillment -- but by being distracted the young are allowing themselves to be "sold down the river".

Seems to me that society is socially re-engineering itself.

More and more people focus their attention on less and less; the screens get tinier and the attention spans shorter. It appears that the norm will soon be ADD and the world will be the size of a cellphone screen.

Just imagine: if the young are trained to think that the world is the two or five or ten square inches in front of them, then we've solved a major problem of the population growth. THAT SPACE is their reality. There is little to no recognition of the world outside of that space. They cannot compute open space, using tools, or face-to-face real-time cognitive conversation.

There is no relationship to the source of anything, including life.

And if you think I'm exaggerating, open your own eyes and look around.

Each day more and more people, not just the young, are plugged-in, wired-up, mp3-ing, texting,

and otherwise lost in a fantasy, alternate reality universe. A universe that in truth has nothing to do with actual reality.

One day in the not too distant future, this alternate will crash. What then?

As my friend Keith pointed out, "They're in for a rude awakening."