Cell Phone Zombies

[XH29N0G]

I think he will sort it out; he suspects it is a case of mistaken identity and has brought it up with his professor.

He is having a blast his first year in college with a job at the wind tunnel where he models turbulence with computers and by joining the SAE Baja racing team. 

Cell phone gets used to send pictures of stuff they make and to show videos of these vehicles in competition.  This coming Saturday is a scrimmage. So yes cell phones are ever present. 

[69DAYTONASE]

Shocking to see this so widespread the first time I picked up my kid at college. I felt like yelling out: "pick up your heads, reality is going on all around you" 
There were actually studies done years ago to find out why the boomer generation wasn't as well socialized as previous generations and it was discovered the culprit was TV. This computer and ipod stuff is MUCH worse than TV was and is!
Has anybody noticed there are hardly any kids playing outside like they used to?
Sad indeed!

[cooldude]

Yeah, us genxers were a lot tougher lot than the snowflakes kids of today, in general.

We didnt have "safe spaces", and not everybody got a trophy. A safe space back in the day, was just a place to keep the beer cold.

Sensitivity training was for dogs, not people, and we were a lot more rough and tumble, and playing outside in all sorts of weather. We got into fist fights, played the dozens, and didnt have a bunch of panty waist, hand wringing ninnies following us around to protect us from getting offended over some ridiculous slight.  

Political correctness should be made into a noun, so we could substitute it for toilet paper when needed. Thats about all its good for anyways.

I think that every generation gets weaker and dumber than the last.

Thats one of the things I liked about the old school Mopar hobby. Back then,there was real competition, and there was a chance to prove that we (and our brand of cars) was better than everybody else, and that they sucked. And its perfectly OK to be better than other people. No brag, just fact.

Whah, no trophy for you, brand X geeks. Better luck next time!

That was the attitude we had, and we expected them to be the same. It was a point of honor to compete for all one was worth.

And thats how it was done, when we pulled up in a ground shaking Mopar with some uncorrect rock music going really loud, while skipping school.

Heck Yeah!

[Kern Dog]

I agree.
The blame for the Millenials being a collection of entitled assclowns falls ENTIRELY on the people that raised them. Sorry, OUR generation did this to them with a LOT of help and direction from the Government. THIS is of course their absolute intention, to get MORE people dependent on the Government.

A group of people raised to be responsible and self reliant will have a better chance of success than .....Oh,  say a collection of people that blame others for their problems, look to Government for solutions, demand vacations and medical benefits and a $15 minimum wage, etc.

[69DAYTONASE]

Agreed!
But this entitlement problem actually began full tilt with the WW2 generation who were the first to encounter and be programmed by a "centralized" (socialist) public school system. Being endoctrinated in collectivism they were the first generation to continue promotion of it. Unwittingly aiding those who aggressively favored the very philosophy they fought against and that resulted in the deaths of millions of people in WW2...National Socialism!
In New York State you HAVE to pay public school taxes or they will seize your property, doesn't matter if you have kids in the system or not. Socialism.
If funding of schools was tuition based the result would be a better education due to direct accountability to the parents for the classroom content.
Want a shocker? Read some of the McGuffey's readers schoolbooks which formed the core of what the generations prior to WW2 were educated on. 4th grade language skills that exceed today's present graduate college skill level.
Dumbing down? Oh.....you betcha-and with a sinister motive! To destroy a free thinking America and turn it into a "socialist utopia" (the last two words are an oxymoron)
The enemy my good people is right in plain view herding your kids and grandkids into those yellow sheep pens on wheels known as school buses and rushing them off to your local indoctrination centers known as public schools for their daily dose of liberal and progressive humanist propaganda!
But try to talk to the average parent about this and you always get the same response: "Well, I went to the public school and I turned out ok".....blee, blee, bleeeee- ah-h-h, no you didn't!
The social ills from the 1950's to present day should be enough to wake up anybody.

[Kern Dog]

Lucky for America, not EVERYone has blinders on.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

[timmycharger]

Want a shocker? Read some of the McGuffey's readers schoolbooks which formed the core of what the generations prior to WW2 were educated on. 4th grade language skills that exceed today's present graduate college skill level.
Dumbing down? Oh.....you betcha-and with a sinister motive!


Reminds me of an older movie "idiocracy" if you have not seen this, its worth a watch in my opinion.  Pretty funny movie, basically predicting where we are heading as a society.

[Lighthorseman]

That's the one! 

[timmycharger]

That's the one!  

Shoot! I missed your earlier post on this!!


edit: and the two responses after... 

[69DAYTONASE]

Lucky for America, not EVERYone has blinders on.

People may be waking up. I am encouraged by my kids friends. Pretty much all raised in a traditional manner, home schooled, Christian schooled. My kid was home/Christian schooled and did the first 2 years of college at my Alma Mater, made Deans and Presidents list. The valedictorian was a 100 percent home schooled kid. The top 5 students were all home/Christian schooled.  
But we all had to still pay public school taxes.
Almost, if not half, of this country still has their hands over their eyes, ears, and mouth- content to live as a mushroom in the dark....

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners"
-Charlton Heston  

[RallyeMike]

CBS national news was reporting tonight how pedestrian deaths are up 25% due to both drivers and walkers who are distracted. While reporting, a women in the background of the shot clearly jaywalks in front of cars at an intersection ...... talking on her phone 

[69DAYTONASE]

  this must make Bill Gates very happy since he is a very vocal advocate of decreasing the population of the planet.
(Never mind that the earth was created FOR a created mankind, not mankind evolved from a chance random process as a result of a spontaneous event.)

[alfaitalia]

Ermmmm...I think you may have gotten that the wrong.......oh never mind.

[Dino]

Ermmmm...I think you may have gotten that the wrong.......oh never mind.

Yeah don't bother, you won't be getting anywhere with that.   

Lots of irony in this thread, and the rest of the boards, good fun.   

[69DAYTONASE]

Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings. I forgot we aren't supposed to discuss religion or use religious symbols like the Angel Emoji provided  oops, I did it again, sorry!  oops, sorry! 

[cooldude]

People are having their brains rewired, by cell phones. They are also having their idea of what society is, and should be, is also being rewritten.

Its sickening, really. I marvel at the overt stupidity.

We might be able to explain to the zombies out there, that this sort of careless stupidity is how the Roman Empire was weakened to the point of collapse. People just got mentally weak, which led to political instability.

Politicians of Rome used short sighted policies of government nanny state tactics, such as social welfare, free bread and benefits of all sorts to gain the support of the mob in the streets, which only led to more mental weakness, less integrity by the politicians, and really bad government policies.

Whole parts of the Empire were being overrun and captured by barbarians. The mob in the streets didnt care, as long as they got more government handouts. They just lived in a bubble, oblivious to what was happening to the Empire.

And then one day, Alaric showed up with a small army of barbarians, laid siege to the city of Rome itself, and the handwriting was on the wall. AD 410, and Rome fell.

We could possibly explain these things to the kids of school age today, if they could lay down their cell phones long enough to listen. But even while we speak,the phones would be endlessly buzzing and beeping, and the mush filled minds of the kids would stray.

They might even break out in a sweat, as cell phone addiction has a Pavlovian response symptom. 



I fear it is a hopeless situation. I fear the country has already passed the point of no return. Too far gone to save.

[Kern Dog]

How about THIS...?
People that shoot video from their phones in the upright position. I call it "Vertical Video". It looks like shit....like looking through a doorway.
Our eyes are side by side. Because of that, our computers, TVs and movie screens are all a 4x3 aspect ratio, WIDER than they are TALL.  It is a natural thing for our images to be viewed wider than tall. Lazy idiots that film pictures and video in the vertical format have infected youtube, LiveLink and every other site.
Look at 2 videos of the samething, one shot vertically and the other shot in the right way. Anyone with more than 3 brain cells would see that a vertical aspect looks totally inferior.

[redgum78]

Another (not very good!) movie is "Cell" cell phones turning their owners into Zombies.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0775440/

[69DAYTONASE]

I fear it is a hopeless situation. I fear the country has already passed the point of no return. Too far gone to save.
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It's the humanist foundation to thinking taught in the public schools and promoted by the media in general that results in these mind numbed dronebots tuning out to reality.
Our country was formed dependant on an informed electorate participating in government.
Like you, I have wondered many times if this country is too far gone. I think the greater problem is with an unwillingness of the part of people to speak out against this sort of thing(political correctness.. Tyranny with manners) 1st amendment being what it is, not many are willing to exercise it for fear of ridicule.
Throughout my kids Christian schooling the students were taught "responsible use of the internet" ...that it should only be used for educational purposes and wholesome entertainment. But I can recall more than one of the high school teachers at her school chastising students on what exactly that means. Any violation meant their iPhone was taken away and the parents had to pickup the device and meet with school administrators. Suffice to say violations were rare!
I will admit to eating crow myself on this subject when I thought my kid was on the Internet too much looking at nonsense only to find out the subjects looked at were faith strenghtening organizations.
How did I find out ? Unbeknownst to me I got signed up for 3 of them by my kid which allows me to sent protest letters with a few Clicks to various media outlets to combat their degrading programs. These organizations have a very high success rate too!

[cooldude]

Yep, I see your point.

Perhaps the issue of cell phone zombies is one merely, of an underlying lack of self control, the inability to govern ones self in a reasonable way?

I wonder if people who are cell phone zombies, are more likely to become addicted to other things to the level of unhealthy addictions?  Or, more easily led astray by peer pressure, or media hype,or the systematic brainwashing by the public schools,or just any  fad or trend coming down the line?

Perhaps the cell phone zombies lack a certain moral strength, and are moral and intellectual weaklings?

If that be the case, then the only way to break their addiction to cell phones, is to help them grow as human beings, until they simply outgrow the addiction?

[69DAYTONASE]

You have a good point there in everything you are saying. 
Instead though they will probably portray it as a "disease" and raise taxes to fund "treatment" for it....y'know $1 for the cause and $99 for the government 
Maybe they can call it "reality aversiphobia" or give it a cutesy acronym like: IBP(Idiot Box Phobia)syndrome.
I'm sure there must a pill for it already with numerous side affects that can cause death and is known in the state of California to cause cancer!

[RCCDrew]

At work today we have been talking about the recent trend of people dying while playing video games between 12 to 30 hours straight. So it's not just cell phones.
Read the book The Unincorporated Man. In the future (in the book) millions die due to Virtual Reality. VR becomes so good that people like VR better than their own lives. They end up starving to death while in their own chosen adventure.

[ws23rt]

I have no personal problem with what others do with their waking hours.

If someone want's to play video games all of their waking hours -that would only be a part of -my- business if and when money/aid comes from my pocket in the form of taxes.

Stuff like this is self leveling unless the gov. gets involved.

Someone that wakes in the morning and seeks the drug of their choice to fill their day is not much different. It's a personal choice and letting it play out as it will is best.

The last thing we need would be centers for these folks unless they paid up front for it.

[Chad L. Magee]

Excellent!  The plan is working perfectly.  No more need for brains...

[Insert generic evil scientist laugh here]



Ironic that the misuse of technology may be our true downfall....