But this, is a perfect blend of cut down important facts for the modern layman, who’s attention span seems to be limited to what beeped on their phone and memories only as ancient as yesterday’s social media update. Amnesic, we have forgotten history and become foundation-less.

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No, it doesn’t. The truth always hurts a bit. And what you have written is the truth!

I taught, as I know you did as well, and you are absolutely spot on in your assessment here. I taught music, and not just band and orchestra, but composition and theory. And I strained the brain trying to come up with ways to make everything I had taught my students in theory to connect with their compositions. I wish my college profs had taken the time to do this with me!

It appears that just being cogs in the machinery is no longer good enough for the powers that be. They want full-blown, mindless androids now!

Great post and points, as usual!

I asked him what his learning problem might be, if he did not mind me being so forward.

He said “I have ADHD”.
I said “How do you know that you have ADHD?”.
He said, “A psychiatrist diagnosed me…I have been taking Ritalin since I was small, till I was about 15. ”

This young man was about 21 years old. By the end of the day he had consumed six cans of coke, two Gatorade, energy drinks and a massive amount of white bread, and sulphited cold cuts and various chocolate bars and sweets treats and cakes.
At the end of the day I said to him ” I can cure your ADHD, would you like to try what I suggest.”, he agreed, until I said he had to withdraw from his consumption of glucose – fructose, caffeine, and energy drinks.

I feel sorry for them, they are helplessly addicted to a form of thinking. And addicted to sugary, high carb foods, and energy drinks.
I asked him “Dexter, what vegetables do you like to eat?” He said “I don’t eat vegetables, I don’t like them.”
He did not drink water as well, only pop, Gatorade, and energy drinks because he gets sugar crashes… And he was clearly forty pounds over weight, out of shape and a smoker. He could not keep up to me, he needed a lot of breaks. He the metabolism of an old person.
I don’t know, I am lost to think of ways to penetrate and get to kids like this.
On that one job, roughly about 3 months work, I went through three young guys like Dexter.
Its sad, so sad. I feel helpless in situations like that…changing diet, drinking water, exercising, reading and educating themselves, and freeing themselves from their medications. Is an impossible feat for them.
They seem doomed. Its scary to see this in the young.

I’m finally starting to get it. You touched on something here I’ve noticed in myself over the past few months. Mind control, relative to large masses of people, needn’t focus on conditioning us WHAT TO THINK to be effective. Just as effective is PREVENTING US FROM THINKING AT ALL. By overwhelming a population (me included) with nonsense of whatever meaningless variety, our brains are kept occupied within the narrow channel or focus the nonsense presents to us. When we allow our minds to be overwhelmed with this gibberish from the outside – as you mention, we become passive, withdrawn and are more susceptible to accepting guidance, direction, etc. Our imagination is quieted – I call it numbed – and we no longer think thoughts we might naturally think if not overwhelmed by constant distraction and useless information. Suddenly, our human gift of imagination and creativity lies unused in the trash bin of Tavistock induced hopelessness.

I do not have adequate words with which to thank you for what you do – but THANKS anyway. Again – great post!

Why would kids want to learn anything when everything is on the Internet? Rely on the internet for everything… easier and faster. This is how they never become self relying. Later on, they rely on governments for everything..

A generation of androids!