A Society of cold automatons? (dates, girl, love, young)

[Jason28]

OMG my RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) is acting up and I can't sleep without my heroin!! Who the **** comes up with these made up conditions? Oh thats right, the same people who sell you the cures.

[WheredoIlive?]

Originally Posted by Jason28

A lot of this "anti-emotion" movement can also be attributed to technology. Look at what cell phones can do now with music, internet, and text messaging. Turn on the television and some cable networks have upwards of 300 channels. Dozens of new movies coming out each week and advertisements on everything we see telling us what to buy. We have become a nation thats entire entertainment system is to just sit down and shut off the brain entirely. They tell you what to do, what to buy, and how to act. No need at all anymore for independent thought or any type of cognitive brain functions. Who needs to talk when you can just lay in your pajamas for days at a time in bed texting? I've noticed people who text often are usually socially retarded. Who the hell buys kids cell phones anyhow? Talk about stupid parenting, make the kid get a job at least for ****s sake!

Hmmm interesting. I wonder about that too. I read in article that kids and younger peoiple are losing the ability to have normal conversations. I am not surprised. I see myself going that way too, where it is easier to type to people then talk to them! But I never stopped my brain. people do not seem independent at all anymore, just sit and take in the brains. I dont even own a regular cell phone and only got an emergency one, that is Pay as you go last year! I thought I was online more because of being disabled but then Ive realized EVERYONE IS. [not just me]

[WheredoIlive?]

Originally Posted by lilred0005

I was just having this exact discussion. Technology sure has come with a high price, gone are the days when ppl actually had to leave the house to be social. This is quite scary, imo.

I think so too. When I left my small town, people htere still did things the old way to a degree, here people do not even "have friends" in the normal way, in terms of seeing them and actually doing things with them!



I think something is being lost too. Im scared!

[WheredoIlive?]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

I was reading a book about entertainment, and it said that almost every home had a piano until the prevalence of record players and radios. People used to have to actively entertain themselves--they knew how to play and sing and create. Technology made it so that people sit and look at things (not each other) to be entertained.

That is pretty interesting, yeah you are right about that?

Who creates anymore? except a few artists and others out there. Many of these closed down people I am talking bout dont even have hobbies. I write poetry for fun, even for MYSELF, to ENTERTAIN myself plus art work. I may even make a diorama for the heck of it this week. I have decided to go offline [not completgely] and join some APAs, I found the list, amateur press associations that grew out of the old zine movement of the 90s. I want to hold paper in hand instead of screen for once.

Theres a multitude of things it could be blamed on. Generational,
technological, even modern meds. The ground work was laid a long time
ago for the current generation, grass roots movements, feminists,
civil rights activists, the list could go on and on. Modern meds play a big part too,
today anyone of us could fall under some diagnoses needing meds.
We're in different times.

I agree.

They have pathologized genius, and gifts even. Being shy, you have social anxiety. Do not conform?--Antisocial? neurotic? Psychologyu alone has brought some of the programming for the SAMENESS. People are afraid to have emotions lest they be labled "crazy". Also many of the psych meds, do nothing to solve the problems a depressed person is facing, this doesnt mean, that some do not have serious chemical problems they need this stuff for, but they most numb down the emotions from what Ive seen and closed people down. What percentage of the population [not talking about severely depressed who need the stuff to stay alive] are on it, to numb themselves out? That isnt even talking about the people who are drugged and boozed out to deal with life.

[WheredoIlive?]

Originally Posted by Jason28

OMG my RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome) is acting up and I can't sleep without my heroin!! Who the **** comes up with these made up conditions? Oh thats right, the same people who sell you the cures.

You got that...

you know what is weirder, is they lowered the bar, for high blood sugar, and high blood pressure. I cant help but think that was to sell more meds. Yes there are millions who need them but why was the bar lowered?

Restless leg syndrome that one is a bunch of crap along with the the one where everyone has to pee too much where the people are actual robots made out of plumbing tubes.... Here is a newsflash to the WORLD,

PEEING IS GOOD!

when you stop peeing YOU ARE IN TROUBLE, you BLOAT!

[tamajane]

Originally Posted by WheredoIlive?

Hmmm interesting. I wonder about that too. I read in article that kids and younger peoiple are losing the ability to have normal conversations. I am not surprised. I see myself going that way too, where it is easier to type to people then talk to them! But I never stopped my brain. people do not seem independent at all anymore, just sit and take in the brains. I dont even own a regular cell phone and only got an emergency one, that is Pay as you go last year! I thought I was online more because of being disabled but then Ive realized EVERYONE IS. [not just me]

But we are not using our senses when we communicate at a keyboard. How do you share a real laugh with a friend on a screen -LOL- but you're still in a room alone typing. It's not natural to how we were designed to socialize. No wonder so many are depressed. I'm sure we are not feeding our souls the way real life connections do. It's great as a convenience but not as the predominant way to communicate. It makes me sad that an old friend of mine refuses to even e-mail anymore but put me on auto-invite list for some networking site. No way I'm accepting that.

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by WheredoIlive?

you know what is weirder, is they lowered the bar, for high blood sugar, and high blood pressure. I cant help but think that was to sell more meds. Yes there are millions who need them but why was the bar lowered?

Funny you say that because I was thinking about it, too. I didn't use to know much about this stuff before, but now I found myself in a position of having to pay attention. In the old days normal blood pressure used to be 100+age. Now they claim it has to be 120 or lower. WTH?! Not everybody is a teen! I don't believe that's true.

[mango tango]

I honestly think much of our world (specifically my young generation) has become very shallow, not just in relation to material goods or appearance, but in general. I hear so many conversations and see so many friendships that barely skim the surface of anything. Maybe people are too caught up in their own lives to ask questions that go beyond the surface. I find myself unintentionally having deep conversations with people - strangers and close friends. We just start talking and I start asking questions and then they open up and start asking questions and voila - deep conversation. And it's funny sometimes because they almost look relieved that they can talk about deep topics.

[teatime]

It's all a symptom of living in a fearful society, comprised of people who have to always believe the illusion that they are in control or that everything can be controlled. Hence, the not reaching out to other people and saying "my family is enough." Nope, it's not. When you cling so vigorously and possessively to a small group of people around you and don't let anyone else in, it's smothering and it goes against our nature. Humans are wired to live in a wider community.

And we can see the symptoms of the fallout all around us. People are unhappy, "syndromes" are being created and the medical/pharmaceutical companies are happy to make money off it, and the most unhappiest among us are doing radical things to their bodies (all sorts of cosmetic procedures, even sex changes) thinking it will make them happy. It doesn't. People expect their spouses and children to fill all of their needs and are deeply disappointed when they don't. Newsflash to those folks -- successful relationships are only possible when you are balanced, open-minded, and secure in yourself. Other people can't complete or "fix" you.

I agree with you, OP. It's sad. You know what's interesting, though? I'm disabled, too, and have lost all of the things that people use to measure "success" -- my career, my savings, my great house, etc. But I've had to develop all of my inner resources and personhood to survive and reach out to other people. In the process, I think I've become a more complete, stronger, and open-minded person, and I've noticed this phenomenon in other disabled people, too. I've had to face my own mortality and focus on what's important. In a sense, it's freeing.

[picklejuice]

Originally Posted by WheredoIlive?

I and a friend of mine were discussing this the other day talking about how people just seem to lack "passion" anymore and they seem so emotionless and shut down. No one seems to care about anything, no causes no nothing. She told me her and sister were talking about this, how people have become so closed down in American society, afraid to open their mouths about anything, afraid to actually have an opinion and no emotions anymore. She said, People just do not have emotions anymore and I agreed!.

I think I moved to the place on the planet with the least emotional people going. I do not think it is just me. Extreme reserved or stoic, even to show too much happiness among these stoics, seems to be threatening to them. By the way this area is far more upper class then where I used to live.


I've heard it said that it is because of overly prescribed mood altering medications (anti-depressants, etc.).
I gotta get out of this place because my personality DOES NOT FIT HERE!~ I actually had this lady here tell me, "I do not need friends, my family is enough" That was weird. She acted as though wanting to be someone's friend was the most evil thing a person could come up with. I do not understand these people!
Why our society values conformity - by Tim Bolton - Helium

I've heard it said that it is because of overly prescribed mood altering medications (anti-depressants, etc.).