The Devil's Own...
The destruction of human race and society by "advanced" technology, with the promise of a Virtual Illusionary Utopia. Not the REALITY we need to get back to. This is more destructive than any war.
Smart Phone Zombies...
World War III is coming!? As the Israelis, Americans and Iranians, like blind men searching for their self destruct buttons, proceed to beat the hell out of each other… the nuclear option is back on the table. I’ll post “Surviving Nuclear Warfare with What You Have” next Friday. I’ve posted it before, however, it needs to get to ALL Americans. Americans need to know how survivable Nuclear Warfare is.
But for now, the issues of this essay, “The Devil’s Own” are just as dangerous… the painfully slow slide to destruction of the human race and society from “advanced” technology.
Is your nose glued to your iPhone or computer screen? Eating a quick highly-processed meal or overeating? Are you overweight or no longer feel pleasure from the simple things in life? Are you suffering from depression, anxiety or are you simply miserable? Do you need to take drugs to cope with living in our world!? Do you believe that what you see and hear in your Virtual headset is the real world?
It is difficult, if not impossible, for me to understand each of your minds and and whether you think by common sense and logical methods.
This is a rewrite from the Civil Defense Manual about the curses of technology. There are mega loads more of this type of information is in the Civil Defense Manual… “How to Survive a Gun Battle,” emergency food recipes you can make at home, tactics to defeat a numerically superior enemy, Water and Food… where to find salt in the wild… You can buy it here…
http://www.JackLawsonBooks.com
There is a growing segment of Americans becoming aware of Preparing for chaos and disaster. By reading this… you are in this group already.
GOOD FOR YOU!
However, I suggest that you read this Young Man’s essay for your own well-being.
From Contributing Author “The Tactical Hermit” and his Son…
The following essay was written by my Son, then 17 years old, for his Senior English High School honors class, back in 2021. Reprinted here in “Survive and Thrive With Jack Lawson” by my permission.
An Essay to Give You Hope for the Future
By “The Tactical Hermit’s” Son…
The so-called “Technological Revolution” has degraded our society, not progressed it.
This “Revolution” has made us depressed, weaker, and more immoral than any other time in history. Society justifies the onset of these afflictions with the hope that further technological advancement will one day bring the opportunity to feel true happiness. But the dismal reality is that further technological development will only exasperate these issues to a higher extent. Humans were evolved to live amongst nature all day, this is in stark contrast to the modern era where the closest most people get to nature is the wallpaper of a beach that they have on their computer. This disconnect to our natural environment has had a disastrous impact on our society’s well-being.
The modern man’s lifestyle is more akin to a sloth who knows how to work a computer rather than the highly developed endurance runners we were born to be. The average man will wake up, have a breakfast of coffee or a fatty piece of bacon, hop in his car and drive to his workplace where he will then sit at a desk for eight hours straight. This kind of lifestyle is the prime cause of why the world is experiencing the sizable obesity epidemic that we are seeing today.
Another cause is the high fat and sodium diet that so much of the world is accustomed to. Due to the industrialization of the food industry, companies found packing foods with simple sugars and sodium makes the production of the food cheaper, and the shelf life longer. The effects of this switch from whole foods to factory foods can be clearly seen in society today. Sixty years ago the average 20-39 year old American man weighed a healthy 166.3 pounds, nowadays the average 20-39 year old American male weighs 196.9 pounds(Healthline).
Now, if this weight was made up of muscle it would be perfectly healthy, but studies indicate that the average body fat percentage for males is 28%, well into being considered overweight. This all can be traced into the rise of the processed food industry onset by the industrial revolution. Beyond affecting the working man’s health, the effect of the industrial revolution can most clearly be seen in today’s youth.
More and more teenagers report having feelings of anxiety and depression on a day to day basis. Research supports this claim. According to the Pew Research Center, the total number of teenagers who have recently experienced depression has increased 59% between the years of 2007 and 2017 (Pew Research Center). This is caused by the alienation they feel from social media, on top of the pressure that our youth experience deriving from their lack of goals, and guidance.
Social media has had a highly negative impact on our society. Instagram is a virtual highlight reel, where anyone scrolling is subjected to one’s happiest moments, specifically tailored to make it seem like their life is perfect. This constant subjection to other people’s highlight reels has the effect of making someone feel like their life is not worth living. The effect of this is that the person shells up their emotion in an attempt to make themselves seem happier to the world.
This will only make the person more miserable, and ironically, more anti-social. Saying this, social media has had the opposite effect on society than intended. Social media was intended to be a way to connect with friends and family through photos and videos. It has now become a popularity contest, a platform to measure one’s value in the societal hierarchy. The reason that the application has not been used as intended, is that it is not designed to improve the users life. Rather, it is designed to be addictive, so that you never want to leave the hamster wheel of chasing more likes, followers, and comments.
The youth are more lost than ever. According to the U.S census bureau, 25% of children grow up without a father (National Fatherhood Initiative). The effects of this lack of guidance is startling. Studies have shown that teens that grow up without a father figure are twice as likely to drop out of high school, four times greater risk of poverty, and seven times more likely to become pregnant as a teen.
This sudden onset of fatherless homes is no coincidence. The rise in bastards is directly tied to the industrialization of our society. As the job market has become more and more technical, the role of the man working a blue collar job has significantly decreased. Thus, society’s view on men has degraded as well. This has made men more infirm than ever, and with weaker men, comes feeble fathers.
The most disturbing part of this rise in depression is the effects it has on youth if these feelings persist. Teen suicide is up by nearly 60% according to the CDC. Additionally, teen suicide is now the second leading cause of death among ages 18-34. Now, what is the solution presented by industrial society? Antidepressants. Mankind has become so dejected with the current way of living that it has become necessary to make a pill to block out your true emotions.
Along with being more unhealthy and depressed than ever, humans are also now more immoral and Godless than ever. Humans are inherently believing creatures, so when you remove that moral compass, chaos insures. Pedophilia is on the rise, and pornography is the catalyst of it by brainwashing the men of today and desensitizing them to increasingly vulgar content. This has all been onset by the advancements made in the internet’s infrastructure. And of course, the suffering doesn’t end with the users, it most devastatingly affects the adolescence.
Pedophilia is on the rise and it is affecting today’s youth. Data from the Crimes Against Children Research Center show that in the US, 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 20 boys have been a victim of a sexual crime (NCVC). It has become such a widespread issue that some parts of the Western world are now accepting pedophilia as something that is normal.
This mental sickness is a product of someone being totally morally bankrupt, and a prime indication that the sudden technological advancement has caused serious ailments in our society. The prime reason for this uptick in crimes against children is a direct result of the rise in production and ease of access to vulgar content on the internet.
Pornography is the root of this rise of immorality today. It conditions males to seek increasingly degrading and wicked content. This can be seen in the fact that the majority of child predators were porn addicts before committing the actual act. The reason pornography has such a negative effect on the human mind lies in how we are wired. Back in the days of running in the savannah with a spear, males had to work to find a suitable mate.
These days, you can fool your mind into believing you have an unlimited amount of mates at the tips of your fingers. The effects this has on the mind’s dopamine receptors is startling. As the dopamine receptors become desensitized, the person must look for a bigger hit of dopamine in the form of more and more reprehensible content. Worse yet, the pornography industry will only continue to grow and make more of this content to consume mindlessly. This is not how humans are supposed to live.
So as the world consumes more social media, pornography, and synthetically designed pills to block how you perceive emotion, I ask, was it all worth it? The iPhone, the air conditioned house, are these fruits of industrial advancement worth the millions of lives that are now cast into a gloomy existence? The houses will never be big enough, the phones not smart enough, and the pills not strong enough.
As long as we continue to chase that utopia, the suffering will only increase.
From Author Jack Lawson…
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The idiocy of iPhones, computers, Virtual Headsets and all this technology and their obvious mind control are portrayed the first photo of this essay. These people may as well be Zombies with no conscious thought of their own. Noses glued to their iPhones. MANMADE INDUCED TOTAL DISTRACTION in people IS MIND CONTROL. If you are insulted by the previous words… then take a look at yourself!
What a focused and truthful insight from Tactical Hermit’s Son to one of the biggest causes for the degradation of our society! He points out numerous issues as to why the people and our society are “Headed to Hell in a Handbasket.” An incredible essay… from an incredible Common-Sense Young Man! I will humbly add Bad Parenting to these destructive issues, which I expand on below.
This is a rewrite from the Civil Defense Manual about the curses of technology. There are mega loads more of this type of information is in the Civil Defense Manual… “How to Survive a Gun Battle,” emergency food recipes you can make at home, tactics to defeat a numerically superior enemy, Water and Food… where to find salt in the wild… You can buy it here…
http://www.JackLawsonBooks.com
For the last decade or more, I have come to the conclusion that modern technology is Satan’s evil in destroying human relationships, courtesy, decency… with technological systems… “The Devil’s Own.” And I’m not a Bible Thumper... it’s just common-sense thought.
The Ones and Zeros of the computer Base-Two-Numeral binary system, the basis of the beginning and continuance of this technology. What would have been beneficial to humanity has transformed into PURE EVIL. This technology has a wonderous place in science, medicine and industry… but the use of it by people, many businesses and government is becoming plain to see. It’s counter productive, but more so dangerous to people. Think Palantir and surveillance. Think programing you and your Children’s minds with Lies. Not “dis-information,” call it what it really is… LIES. Think of the eventuality of an implanted monitoring and controlling ‘chip’ in your Children which will be next.
Oh! I don’t know anything about technology!? I used to arm and disarm the W40 Thermo Nuclear Warhead and did so for 14 months. I must have had sufficiently good training in Advanced Electronics and I must have done a fairly good job of it, as I didn’t damage… or obviously set one off. So, “I know a thing or two… about a thing or two.”
But this essay doesn’t require you to have advanced electronics training… it simply requires a common-sense look at where we are and how this “Time Saving and Advanced” technology is destroying us.
Eight years ago, I got rid of my ‘Smart’ iPhone “Entertainment Center” and went back to a Flip Phone. My anxiety has dropped, my focus and sanity has come back to me. I now use the medium of the cellphone for what it was originally intended for… verbal communication, with a side of severely restricted texting. It’s too painful to text a reply on a Flip Phone… so I in essence, don’t text.
Has my life disintegrated!? NO! Has it improved. YES! I am not plagued with the constant interruption of the iPhone “Entertainment Center.” When I have time on my hands, I pick up one of those ‘archaic hardcopy books’ to read. I’m reading my former Support Commando, Commanding Officer’s account of his exploits in Africa and Oman as a Soldier… “From Soup To Nuts… A Song of Life” by Major Nigel Henson. A GREAT READ… and it doesn’t need electricity during daylight hours.
I’ve often said… “If I get anymore time saving technology, I won’t have ANY time left.” Then there are the issues of hacking, Lies of Omission. propaganda and untruths that abound from the ‘Smart’ Phone and the Internet systems. Loss of focus.
Start with what this insightful Young Man says about the “Technological Revolution,” as he is far more perceptive and understanding than most of us “ADULTS.” Dump your ‘Smart’ iPhone like I’ve done. Smell the roses and watch the sunset. Enjoy again looking into another’s eyes for true meaning between people. People’s minds are passing from distraction and isolation, into an illusionary realm of make believe that they are beginning to think is real. The VIRTUAL WORLD and FOMO… Fear Of Missing Out. It’s worse for most people than “just being able to hold it,” when having to go to the bathroom.
I’ve seen people texting fall down walking over a curb, run into a utility pole because they’re so absorbed in a little screen that’s leading them around like a leash on a dog, run into other people while texting, move into the lane of oncoming traffic while texting when driving… etc., etc.
My favorite was to watch, what I assume was, a family of 5 sit down in a restaurant, directly across and in full view of me. Never, during their 45 minute meal, did they say one word to each other. They ate and then got up and left, still glued to their iPhones as they walked out. They are soooooo hypnotized by their iPhone that it makes them look like idiots… which is what they are. What a family get together for lunch!
Worse are the insults people post to each other when they have this modern medium between them. Insults that they wouldn’t dare say in person or verbally to that person’s face. Because they’d get their arm broken or snout punched out through the back of their skull. Knee jerk reactions of reply, without a pause for rational thinking on how to respond. Not cool.
Then there is the “Virtual Reality” of audio and visual headsets. Some people have come to believe in this Virtual Reality, as the real world, and increasingly retreat into it, in their “existence.”
The X-Box Parent
The X-Box ‘parenting’ issue. Kids have become spoiled because the parents barely know they’re home as they play video games in their bedrooms or the basement. Rotten acting children in public because the parents are too absorbed in their iPhones that they just let young children scream and misbehave around them and strangers. Worse, they know not what their teenagers are doing.
My Wife, British, when out and about with our kids, ONLY ONCE had to drag each of our children to the bathroom when they screamed or got out of hand. One whack on the tush… that was the last time they misbehaved. Get your children out for a walk in nature. Show them the real wonders of this world!
Hold on Folks, I’ll be right back to finish my writing. I have to take a break. Writing makes me hungry. I’m going to put my Virtual Headset on and make my Virtual Supper… Yummy! I’m going to have a Virtual Filet Mignon, Virtual asparagus, Virtual baked potato with Virtual chives, Virtual butter and Virtual sour cream on top. Yummy! Oh, my steak is too well done. Let’s see, oh yes… I’ll reverse that in my headset. There! Medium rare, just like I wanted it! Pass the Virtual salt & pepper please. You know one thing I like about virtual meals? …the salt & pepper shakers never need to be refilled… they’re always full!
I never seem to gain weight by these virtual meals… and I’ve been VERY tired since I started eating Virtual meals. The Virtual scale says I still weight 180 pounds, and the Virtual scale doesn’t lie. The skin is stretched taut over my emaciated arms as I struggle to get my fingers to reach the keyboard of my comput……………. Whoa! That wasn’t a Virtual floor I just collapsed on! I’m bleeding from my head, blood all over the floor and it hurts… not Virtually, but it REALLY HURTS! I’d better put my Virtual Headset back on and call a Virtual ambulance… How do I stop the bleeding? I’m searching for that on my Virtual Headset. I hope the Virtual ambulance gets here soon. I’m about to pass out from loss of bloo…
This is a rewrite from the Civil Defense Manual about the curses of technology. There are mega loads more of this type of information is in the Civil Defense Manual… “How to Survive a Gun Battle,” emergency food recipes you can make at home, tactics to defeat a numerically superior enemy, Water and Food… where to find salt in the wild… You can buy it here…
http://www.JackLawsonBooks.com
Take a look at what’s in the Civil Defense Manual…
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Recommended Blogs, Internet Shows and Websites…
Western Rifle Shooters Association at:
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Matt Bracken at: www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com
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Forward Observer at: www.ForwardObserver.com
General Michael Flynn’s Substack at:
Normal American at: NormalAmerican.com
NC Scout at: www.brushbeater.org
SELCO at: www.shtfschool.com/ (His books and his Survival Boot Camp)
Johnny Paratrooper at: www.patreon.com/GreenDragonAcademy
Prepared Airman at: www.preparedairman.bigcartel.com/
Big Country Expat at: www.bigcountryexpat.com/
Stan Szymanski at: www.EcouragingAngels.org
Survivor Library at: www.survivorlibrary.com
Joe Dolio at: www.Tactical-Wisdom.com
Nehemiah Strong at: www.johndyslin.com/
Don Shift at: www.amazon.com/Don-Shift/e/
Daisy Luther at: www.theorganicprepper.com
Christopher Parrett at: www.ldsavow.com
The Tactical Hermit at: www.thetacticalhermit.com
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Infantry Dort at: https://www.InfantryDort.Substack.com
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