Screen troll

Sometimes I wonder what will happen to all the people who have all their attention in their mobiles.

If you sit on the subway and watch the others: everyone sits with bowed heads engrossed in their mobiles. in principle all!

In the playgrounds, parents stand and rock their toddlers, while behind their backs they stare into their mobiles. When the children go to school, they go and look down at their cell phones. When people are out walking their dogs, they look at their mobile phones. When people have outings, they look at their mobiles. If they sit together and have coffee, they look at their mobile phones. If they have a break on the construction site, they sit quietly next to each other and look at their mobile phones. When they ride their bikes, they look at their mobiles, when they drive, they look at their mobiles, when they lie in the hammock they look at their mobiles.

Small children sitting in prams look down at toads or at mobiles. It looks like everyone is sick and chained to a vital instrument that gives them the power to walk around. That's probably what you would think if you saw them from the outside and didn't know. As if everyone were unfit for life and therefore of necessity had to focus on their mobile drop positions.

Why are they walking around like that?, all with bowed necks, out of reach for his now? It's sad to talk about it, about how brains are affected by it, how life in its entirety and extension fades and shrinks and mentally becomes crippled. We know that the brain is triggered by it, that the brain's reward system is falsely rewarded, that our curiosity is kidnapped. We are brainnapped.

It also seems rather boring. What do we live for??

In Sweden, digitization is successful, so we will be extra stupid here. There will always be children who develop into a kind of elite and these will be the individuals who have limited their screen use and not become addicted. It will be those who are trained to write by hand, in preparing works with paper and pencil, those taught by dedicated teachers present who can answer questions or show how to find out what you want to know – without always referring to google – while they will be trained in dealing with the digital world. All research shows that learning and memory work many times better if the entire process consists of listening, reading and writing down by hand with body and brain is activated than if you read things on a screen. With the senses of one's body, one also conquers theoretical knowledge and when one's being is engaged in this way, the feeling of satisfaction also rises, desire and curiosity for more. It is simply active, instead of passively. It will be those who live with adults who actively wonder how their days have been, who speaks to them, adults who together with their children share each other's thoughts and experiences – PRESENT. The benefits and qualities that these children will receive – which have hitherto been natural in being formed into man – will be impossible for the others to grasp.

The future elite will also have greater access to independent work, in the form of the art of using paper and pencil, also be those who exercise their body. Those who dance, practicing sports, springer. And those who play. Who use whims and ideas that come to them as they play. Who experiences the desire, the togetherness, breathing, the scents, the substrate, matter, the air, the exhausts, the physical touches – in the game. And it will be the children who learned music. Learned to sing, learned to handle an instrument. When the municipal music school existed where you had a place secured semester after semester, an invaluable foundation was laid for many children , a foundation of self-confidence and insight into the power of boring repetition to achieve goals and enjoy that work. The children who are allowed to stay in these arenas, will be armed.

The children who are deceived by their parents' mental presence will find their escape routes from an incomprehensible reality into the worlds of the screens. According to research, a childhood with a physically present parent who is mentally absent is in their screens, as harmful as growing up with an alcoholic or drug-addicted parent. They are there, but they are still not there at all. Can you imagine anything more eerie, for a small child?

The children are at risk of losing in a long series of areas that I don't want to enumerate, it's just something to think about. What paths do they take as adults? What crises of alienation and emptiness will this deep screen addiction create? What will build their inner world, their morals, ethic, their values, their longing and will, their ability to meet, to want to meet, to dare to live, to believe that life is worth exploring?

Technology has always scared the old, kan man säga, but technology has not occupied brains before, not in this way. And when you know that the creators behind games and social media do not let their children use them more than very limited, well aware of what they have created, Well, at least it's food for thought even for the most tech-savvy?

I'm thinking about this, when I stroll around in reality and observe the others without them noticing.