Editor’s Note: Today’s America is breeding a people that are soft, comfortable and too engaged in technology. They seem to have lost the ability to be “tough” and engaging and think for themselves. They rely on social media way too much and their social relationships (the one-on-one) suffer drastically. But what if…

Their technological society gets turned off and smart phones go silent? What will they do? I venture to say from reports I’ve heard that some will experience a mental breakdown of sorts and that won’t be good for America. 

So what if they (we) are now be conditioned for such an event? Just saying…

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”” -Dan 12:4 (ESV)

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The following article was originally published by Michael Snyder at End of the American Dream. (Used by permission)

If “Slow Wifi” Causes “Major Stress”, How Are Young People Going To Make It When Times Get Really Tough?

By Michael Snyder, on  Mar 18, 2019

You won’t believe some of the things that are causing “major stress” for young people in America today.  According to a brand new survey that was just released, 58 percent of all American Millennials believe that “life is more stressful right now than ever before”.  And so what is precisely making life so stressful for our young adults?  Well, apparently their phones are a big part of the problem.  In the survey, “losing phone”, “phone battery dying”, “forgetting phone charger” and “phone screen breaking” were all among the top 20 sources of stress cited by Millennials.  Also making the top 20 were “choosing what to wear” and “washing dishes”.  Here is the complete list…

1. Losing wallet/credit card
   2. Arguing with partner
   3. Commute/traffic delays
   4. Losing phone
   5. Arriving late to work
   6. Slow WiFi
   7. Phone battery dying
   8. Forgetting passwords
   9. Credit card fraud
   10. Forgetting phone charger
   11. Losing/misplacing keys
   12. Paying bills
   13. Job interviews
   14. Phone screen breaking
   15. Credit card bills
   16. Check engine light coming on
   17. School loan payments
   18. Job security
   19. Choosing what to wear
   20. Washing dishes

I am sorry, but if “slow WiFi” if one of your biggest problems in life, then you actually have it pretty good.

It is no wonder why so many are referring to them as “Generation Snowflake”.  What in the world are these young adults going to do when times get really tough and they start to face some real challenges?

Sadly, I think that we are going to see meltdowns of absolutely epic proportions.

And I want you to notice how many items in the list above have to do with technology.  I am old enough to still remember the days before cell phones and before the Internet.  Somehow we managed to function, and life was actually quite good.

But now technology completely dominates most of our lives.  In the early nineties, I worked for a major retailer, and part of my job was to help people get online with Compuserve and America Online.

Do you remember those days?

Most people only had dial-up Internet access, and it seemed like some pages took half an hour to load.  But things eventually got a lot faster, and a speedy Internet radically changed our society.  For the first time, we were able to directly communicate with one another on a massive scale without having to go through corporate gatekeepers, and that was a very positive thing.

But over the past couple of years, the tech giants have decided to engage in a campaign of censorship like we have never seen before.  On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. released a scathing editorial about all of this censorship.  The following comes from the Hill…

Our right to freely engage in public discourse through speech is under sustained attack, necessitating a vigorous defense against the major social media and internet platforms.

From “shadowbans” on Facebook and Twitter, to demonetization of YouTube videos, to pulled ads for Republican candidates at the critical junctures of election campaigns, the list of violations against the online practices and speech of conservatives is long.

Millennials dominate the leadership at many of these social media platforms, and their snowflake sensibilities are deeply offended by political viewpoints that are different from their own.  And instead of opening up their minds and learning to be tolerant of different ideas, they have chosen to try to brutally suppress them.  In fact, we now know that Facebook even went so far as to develop algorithms to “deboost” content with certain keywords…

Thanks to a brave Facebook whistleblower who approached James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, we now know that Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant developed algorithms to “deboost” certain content, limiting its distribution and appearance in news feeds. As you probably guessed, this stealth censorship was specifically aimed at conservatives.

Facebook appears to have deliberately tailored its algorithm to recognize the syntax and style popular among conservatives in order to “deboost” that content. “Mainstream media,” “SJW” (Social Justice Warrior) and “red pill” — all terms that conservatives often use to express themselves — were listed as red flags, according to the former Facebook insider.

Action must be taken, because all of this censorship is one of the greatest threats to free speech in modern American history.

The social media giants built billion dollar companies by allowing everyone to express themselves, but now that they own large portions of “the digital public square”, they want to lock out those with certain political viewpoints.

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