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Perhaps it was the other day hearing an old song that started me thinking about this topic while driving through a residential neighborhood. I asked my wife, “When was the last time we saw a child chase a ball out into the street?” We both thought about it, and realized it must be about 30 years since we’ve seen that happen.

When people were taught to drive just a few decades ago, caution was the name of the game. You were taught to look out for children playing around homes and neighborhoods. In a restaurant the other day with my wife, that classic 1965 song “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon” played on a juke box.

Moon's south pole taken by Celementine spacecraft

Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses never home
Church full of singing out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon

Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon

Long time ago
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun

Hearts full of motors painted green
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Arms that can only lift a spoon
Everyone's gone to the moon

Everyone's gone to the moon
Everyone's gone to the moon..........

And here we are living in the future 43 years later, with many things now happening which the song writer foretold:

"Roads full of houses never home” – And where is everyone? At the local mall spending money they don’t have, and never will but that never stopped them. With people losing their houses everywhere, today there are plenty of roads with empty homes.

“Eyes full of sorrow”: - We have that everywhere today. People no longer smile with a bleak future in store for America. Homes are lost, jobs are gone and most of them will probably never return to American soil again. A deep sorrow is felt by all with silent tears shed for a dying America. America was a county once loved by the world which protected many nations, too. But now she is despised by most of the world because of the actions of just one man.

“Hands full of money, all in debt” – People spending money which isn’t even real, backed by absolutely nothing.

“Hearts full of motors painted green” – It could be said that this is the incessant green movement of today, which in reality has done nothing effective for our planet except make billions of dollars and Euros for a handful of companies. Now participants and patrons at the Olympics in China are already choking on world-record smog.

“Arms that can only lift a spoon” – Widespread computer and video game obsession has spread like a festering disease and weakened everyone to the point where countless people do nothing but eat and lift a spoon. The very idea of mental challenges, physical play and fun is now scoffed at by many, having been replaced with mindless internet surfing and reading internet political dribble.

When I hear this song today it has a vastly different meaning than it did years ago. When I was a child it inspired me to think about dreams of space travel and the future sometime after the year 2000. Trying to imagine life even in the 1990s while listening to this song in the 1960s was almost impossible. As children many of us often looked at science fiction with awe and wonder, dreaming of wonders such as flying cars and teleporting. 

It seemed back in the sixties that the future would be brighter, convenient, secure and happy. Even with the hippie movement and dark, distant Vietnam War filling television screens every single night on the news with body counts, it still seemed as though the good times of the fifties and sixties in America could never end and things would only get better in the future.

How good was it economically? People routinely purchased new homes all the time on just one income, without engineering jobs or higher salaries as executives.

It seemed as though that a wonderful life of that era could go on forever. Or so we all thought.

My mother now 80, agrees with me that those two decades were indeed the best years of the past century. And since that time, life has been going down hill ever since. The problems we have today didn't just start recently, but trace back to the 1970s.

USE IT OR LOSE IT

The future has brought us an era completely unlike anything we expected. It’s an era with telephones in numerous forms, many other forms of communication like texting and computers everywhere. When many of us were in grade school, there was no such thing as using a calculator to pass a math test. Today it’s commonplace and even expected. People foolishly believe tidat they don't need to use their brain when they can push a few buttons and get a quick answer. No one seems to ponder the real question – who will be programming the processors used inside the next generation of calculators!

It was discovered a few years ago that nuns living in convents had approximately a 40% higher chance of having Alzheimer’s disease when they were older than the average adult. Abundant evidence already exists that when we don’t use our minds they stagnate. It’s not all that different from a pond without circulating water. Soon the pond is unfit to swim in. When people don’t use their minds every day for mental challenges, in no time at all they will lose their ability to function normally and deal with life's challenges.

The expression “Use it or lose it” is very true. Yet so few people ever give one thought about endless hours spent staring at television or monitor screens – that while doing so they are being programmed to think a certain way to benefit those which control all. Does the term "mindless droids" comes to mind?

The first 12 years of grade school is designed to make certain we will fit into society as adults. Can any of us really recall anything useful we learned in those 12 long years? Perhaps the ability to do basic math, algebra and memorize the multiplication tables is about it. I think that almost everthing of value for adulthood we were taught in grade school, could ALL be taught in just one year.

Think about it – 12 years of history classes! How many different variations are possible to teach world history? Apparently the education system believes there are at least 12. It takes a lot of hard work to create mindless droids on both the part of the teacher and the student. A high school diploma really means "See, I've proven that I'm now thinking like I should to fit into the big picture." That's not education - it's brainwashing.

Today, there are battery powered devices everywhere used for every conceivable purpose. Remote controls keep people firmly implanted into their sofas while endless telephones help insure distant, surreal relationships with others. Computers, whether battery powered or AC, also help create mal-formed relationships using chat rooms. A computer should be seen as a tool. No one would ever imagine abusing a tool like a power saw, but they abuse computers almost every single day. Don't think so? Go to a library and look over people's shoulders at mindless dribble they often spend hours reading on-line. Find out just how many are doing research for school or even doing something creative to better their lives.

Are battery powered, dumbing-down devices so addictive that people cannot stop using them? These clever little electronic wonders are intentionally designed to be addictive. Perhaps accomplishing product use addiction is the Valhalla of marketing.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

I strongly believe that there is absolutely no reason why children need cell phones. Besides the cancer and tumor implications, it doesn’t help them form good relationships with their friends. Seeing someone on a tiny screen and hearing their voice through a dirt-cheap speaker is far from the same exchanging of thoughts as a face to face meeting. There is body language and expressions, that don’t translate well or even at all through a cell phone. But few parents realize this.

Video games of all kinds aren’t helping parents or their parenting skills. Besides being a pointless expenditure, these mind-numbing toys are extremely addictive. There are ruined marriages from the endless time and expenses these toys require. With simple video games now played on cell phones, even adults are completely obsessed by them. These do absolutely nothing to stimulate the entire brain, such as going to a live orchestral concert will do.

THE CURE

It’s up to everyone as adults to take the reins, and set a good example for our children and grandchildren by refusing to participate in or promote battery-powered madness. It’s been said that no one becomes an alcoholic with just one drink. Likewise, no one becomes a battery-powered, dumbed-down adult or child with just one game or one cell phone call. People must be responsible and stop it before it starts. If someone is already addicted, whether it be an adult or child, they must take stock of themselves by asking these questions:

* Is battery-powered madness affecting my job?

* Is this obsession affecting my ability to be promoted or look for a better job?

* What kind of example am I setting for my spouse, children and grandchildren?

* What is this addiction doing to my marriage? Do I even understand that?

* What could I be doing to better my life instead of mindlessly pushing buttons?

* Can I accept the fact that I can live just fine without my cell phone?

(Remind yourself that people already have done this for many millennia.)

* If my mind starts to go when I am older and I can't play these cell or video games anymore…was most of my life wasted doing nothing constructive? What will I do when it's too late for change when I finally do realize it?

If this essay saves just one person from a life of battery-powered dumbing-down, it was well worth the time.

Ted Twietmeyer

www.data4science.net

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Song lyrics from http://www.jacquedee63.com/gonetothemoon.html