Isn't this standard fare for about every dystopian movie you've ever seen?
The unavoidable, omnipresent, Big Brotherian telescreen that blares everywhere in public spaces...
Posted on 01/03/2023 4:26:07 AM PST by CFW
“.... FReeper said the endocrine system’s clash with environmental factors may play a part in the trans “movement.” Far too many household products contain toxins that are known endocrine disruptors. Way too many foods are Frankenfoods, full of garbage and fillers God did not design us to ingest. Toys, water bottles, toothpaste, and more are slowly poisoning our children. That, combined with a lack of exercise and sunshine, is doing long-term damage to our kids.
I suspect that’s also at play with ADHD.”
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I suspect that has something to do with it. The chemicals added to water systems may have an effect as well. I live in a rural area, we have our own well water, and do not eat out at restaurants or eat hardly any pre-prepared food. We seldom drink bottled water since we prefer the taste of our well water. I cook all our our meals at home. My husband, sons, grandsons, all the male neighbors, etc, are very “manly” men. All the chemicals we, as a society, ingest on a daily basis has to have an effect on us.
Typically, individuals with very high IQs will say their first words early, go quiet for a while, then, around 2 years old, come out with complete sentences.
Your granddaughter is instinctually dissecting the science of language (yes, there is a science to it).
Children will also follow the path of least resistance to navigate their world. If she can get her point across without speaking, she will.
Everyone around her can expand her speaking skills in several ways:
1. Require that she verbalize what she wants.
2. Use as many trisyllabic words as possible when speaking to or around her. Add adjectives and adverbs whenever possible.
3. Reward and praise her when she speaks.
4. Do not use baby talk. Enunciated clearly. Look at her when you are speaking.
5. If she struggles to articulate, have her hearing tested.
6. Singing stimulates other parts of the brain. Turn off the TV and play music instead. Classical, Broadway musicals, and Opera were the soundtracks of my youth. My mother was a gifted violinist and singer; little did she know her love of music while housecleaning was also activating learning centers in our brains.
I sat all of my infant children in my raised lap, facing me, and repeated words over and over. I wore bright red lipstick (red stands out to newborns). My youngest shocked the nurses when, at just 5 months old, he could say, “I love you.”
He, like his uncles, went quiet until he was 2. Rest assured, he is now highly articulate with a wicked sense of humor.
Stop feeding the kids sugar!
How do we get out of a sinful culture?
Isn't this standard fare for about every dystopian movie you've ever seen?
The unavoidable, omnipresent, Big Brotherian telescreen that blares everywhere in public spaces...
So VERY true!
They’ve got to be taught,
before it’s too late,
before they are six,
or seven or eight...
Thank you for the encouraging words. Someone suggested “Late Talking Children” by Thomas Sowell yesterday. My wife said, order it but send it to our house. She said the daughter has enough on her mind plus the wife doesn’t want to scare our daughter (daughter just had a second child over Christmas!). We’re already doing several of the items you suggested, but we (as grandparents) are standing back a little. I AM going suggest a hearing test. I do have to say, every time the kid’s over here, she has new words. Plus she’ll repeat a word or two that we say. So I’m hopeful. Thanks again.
I have to wonder the percentage of people taking drugs these days? I bet it is very, shockingly high.
When your granddaughter comes over, play the “Can you say?” game and the “What is that?” game.
Can You Say is where you introduce a new large word (trisyllabic or more) and ask her to repeat it. For example: continent, potato, amusing, dexterity, etc. Make sure you enunciate clearly, exaggerate your mouth movements, and are looking at her. Each time she successfully repeats a world, shower her with love and praise.
What Is That is the same concept. Point to something in the house and ask her to identify it. If she can’t, tell her what it is (using the can you say rules of enunciation, exaggeration, and speaking directly to her) and ask her again. Praise and love on her when she is successful.
Don’t be surprised if she starts pointing to things on her own and identifying them next time she comes over. Continue to recognize and praise her.
If she does well in either of these games, she’s good. She’s just learning sentence structure and figuring out how language works.
One reads from them: "The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda.
"In countries where the levers of power are in the hands of a state bureaucracy, the monopolistic control over the media, often supplemented by official censorship, makes it clear that the media serve the ends of a dominant elite."
When we lived in Germany as expats, I'd mentioned to a neighbor that I had read through "Mein Kampf" to better inform myself of the idiocy and evil which it represented. This was in a time when the publication of it was still banned officially. He was surprised that an American would have done this. The answer lies in what Herman and Chomsky wrote in 1988 when they thought they were writing about the so-called American right, as it applies more so now than to then.
"...the ends of a dominant elite" seem Big Brother-like because their ends are. Money and control at all costs, and without regard to a free citizen's right to think as a dissident. Today's dissidents are of the conservative side, as the press and the political elite attack daily with hopefully-enforced narratives. To dissent enrages them. To disagree annoys them. To remain more free of their grasp makes them grasp more aggressively. Ergo such as the gaslighting and mandates of these last years.
I take heart that in so many ways people are walking away, such as the competitors to social media rise, the loss of subscribers and readers to MSM are more than evident, and in so many ways dissidence is being shown by "walking away." Or informal boycotts. Or moving away from the more Leftist states. And so on.
That neighbor in Germany said he thought the revolution of our time was not the various political movements nor color revolution under the likes of Nuland and the neo-con gang, but the internet itself. I agree.
Like a worldwide and now very open Samizdat, dissidence is being spread. For this we have seen the fumbling and ham-handed attempts at ever greater censorship. It is failing, I think, as time goes by.
Once all the socialisms are clustered together, one finds National Socialism in the same ideological camp as Soviet and Sino-socialism and also the Democrats' Democratic Socialists of America , which is be supported in Congress as in academia and the media. But the average Joe -- and each John Doe -- is coming to see this more clearly. Socialism in all its forms to include the current Democrat's smiley-faced fascism will always fail, because it is never a real economic policy, only a political one masquerading as economics. Real economics is greater freedom for individuals, companies, consumers, and capital itself. Socialism is debt and coercion.
This seems why those "public pronouncements" like Biden's "get your shot" and more are so inane. In service to corruption. It will unravel. Give it time, I think. Best wishes.
Under PL 94-142, students labeled as disabled are granted extra funding for resources to accommodate their disabilities. When ADD and ADHD were included as a disability, the number of kids diagnosed with it skyrocketed.
Further, more young people consume toxins in their food now than ever before. These poisons are damaging our kids.
"In countries where the levers of power are in the hands of a state bureaucracy, the monopolistic control over the media, often supplemented by official censorship, makes it clear that the media serve the ends of a dominant elite."
Golly!
I wonder from where these ideas emanate?
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
“Shooting an Elephant” (1936) is other recommended reading from Orwell. The massive “Covid” pressure of the corrupt politicos and the media has mirror to much that came earlier. Best regards from one “hesitant” to the point of total rejection to the current mRNA marketing.
thanks
I’ll check it out
I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.
OMG!
I wonder if much of history has been directed simply by the powerful truth found in the last sentence!
While we here on this forum are somewhat anonymous, as it should be, I find it fascinating how certain circles cluster to say the same things to each other, while others notice them now as groups of self-reinforcing voices.
And some notice that others' retorts -- less answers than sniping -- are become predictable. As if some Freepers treat this forum like another in the panoply of social media, rather than something a bit different.
Best regards from an old fool, a bit wiser each day for the insights of so many wonderful voices.
When folks have been married for decades, and weather storms, strife and sun together, they due tend, at times, to end each others sentences.
The thorns that used to prick us, so long ago, have they worn down to comforting nubs against our tender skins; or have we developed thicker hides?
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