In recent times, the phenomenon of social networks has worried and even frightened specialists in the field of social behaviour due to its international scope, unlimited action, and breadth. 1
To cite the example of mobile telephony - cell phones - which correspond to more than 5 billion units in the hands of close to 70% of the population. Today, these devices have become an extension of the human body, like umbilical cords feeding more and more the multipolarity of the mind. And there are no borders to expand. It goes from Lapland to Patagonia and the most remote islands.
Despite its usefulness as a means of communication, its action has also been devastating, especially among children, adolescents and young adults, who, excited by the discoveries of new horizons, fall as easy prey in the hands of evil predators—also reaching the elderly, on frauds and exploitation of those who do not know how to use these gadgets properly.
And another aspect that worries science, but not the greed of its manufacturers, are the side effects that the human body is subject to, with the constant bombardment of electromagnetic waves, particularly in the brain, especially with 5G technology.
Given this, many voices are raised to alert humanity, if this is the way forward, without effective control by governments (which as a rule are in common with communication lobbyists), alert and due education to the users.
Nowadays, communication between people is limited to these “miraculous” little gadgets. The world of human beings is summed up in this. Wherever one goes, people are connected, but they do not verbally interact with each other, as in a supportive community, but only in their limited circles of relationships, and even then, in texts, recordings and live audios. There is no more eye-to-eye communication! Families at the tables, but each involved with the agility of the fingertips, pressing small keys. What is this sign? And where is humanity heading in the face of this picture of the alarming distance between its members?
Huberto Rohden (1893-1981), a Brazilian philosopher and educator, stated in one of his books: “The greatest crisis of modern man continues to be existential, a chaotic existential frustration. In the past, the man had lost his path; now, he has also lost his address. He no longer knows his destiny or the purpose of existence and even reaches the absurdity of denying the presence of a purpose! Man is losing sight of the reason for existing.
Writers and philosophers openly proclaim that human life has no purpose and that man is a mere pawn in the chance of being born, living and dying. This is the typical anti-cosmic view of existence. It is the result of the education of the peripheral ego, without the education of the integral man. It's no use running more and more searching for something where the realization is ephemeral. Modern man lacks an orientation amid this general disorientation.
And this process of disconnection with oneself – to cite an example – makes the shelves of bookstores fill up with self-help books, or with pseudo saviours from the chaotic situation on social networks, and even with magicians influencing people with ideas that life begins at 40... That the best time in life is retirement or the spring of existence... Another, even less resigned, published: Life Begins at 60!
And these poor mortals join the army of the semi-dead in the illusory intention of trying to solve the dramas and dilemmas of their fellow beings, not knowing, themselves, that the light to illuminate this darkness comes from the knowledge of themselves; it comes from the exercise of controlling the mind and the tyranny of the ego.
Man, seeking to conquer his exteriorities, lost himself in the horizontalities of technical processes without dominating ethical verticality, in the inevitable conflict that is established between comfort and pleasure, to the detriment of the plenitude of his inner harmony. He lives wholly disconnected from his inner Self, from his centre of balance, from his spirituality, keeping himself connected to new aggressive agents, to which he continually gives access and life, increasingly disorganizing his entire being.”
In other words, man hides from himself, losing his address and destiny when facing the purpose of life, not showing the ability to resolve his dramas, dilemmas and unknowns, right here where he lives, in this sphere of magnificent colours, but which hides on its surface the frightening images of lies, despair, lack of love, misery, hunger, farce, lust, wars, racism and prejudice, selfishness, slavery, avarice... the culture of all kinds of violence. From a prism where no light is revealed, only the monstrous gloom of madness!
Recently, Cassiana Tardivo, a Brazillian psychopedagogue, speaker, educational counsellor for children, adolescents, and parents, with more than 25 years of experience in the area and who, from a tragic event, still rare in Brazil, came to light on the issue of social media, in a brilliant reflection on the phenomenon, after the accidental death of a 13-year-old boy, leaving a warning to parents and teachers about a dangerous game, according to witnesses, played mainly by boys, broadcast in real-time by the Internet.
It is the choking game, asphyxiating, fainting in which participants use ropes or any other object to cut off the oxygen supply to the brain, pass out and then wake up in a euphoric state, similar to the effect of drug use.
“Before we used to lose children in the rivers, in the woods, in the seas, today we have them lost inside the room!
When they played in the backyards, we heard their voices and listened to their fantasies. When we heard them, even from a distance, we knew what was going on in their minds.
When they entered the house, there was no TV in every room or electronic devices in their hands.
Today we don't hear their voices, thoughts, and fantasies, but the children are there, inside their rooms, and that's why we think they are safe.
How immature of us.
Now, they stay with their headphones, locked in their worlds, building their knowledge without us knowing what they are.
They lose their lives, despite being alive body-wise, but dead in their relationships with their parents, closed in a global world of so much information and stimuli, of fleeting fads, which in no way contribute to the formation of safe and strong children to make morally correct decisions and according to their family values...
Inside their rooms, we lose the children because they don't even know who they are or what their families think anymore; they are already dead of their family identity...
They become a mixture of everything they have been influenced by, and parents don't always know what their children have become.
You can read this text today and love it. Please send it to friends.
You can see truths in it and reflect. All this will be excellent.
However, as a Psychopedagogue, I have seen so many dysfunctional families with zombielike children inside the room, so I make you an invitation and please accept it!
I invite you to take your child out of the room, from the tablet, from the cell phone, from the computer, from the headset; I invite you to buy table games and have children in the living room, next to you, for at least two days established in your week, including Saturdays and Sundays.
And play games, have fun with them, listen to their voices, speeches, thoughts and have the opportunity to have them alive, as “trouble makers” and for them to learn to live as a family. To feel that they belong at home so that they do not need to venture into these dangerous games to feel like someone, or get a little adrenaline that they used to have with backyard games!”
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1)- On this same date, the director of Australia's intelligence service, ASIO, reported that young people are resorting to violence after being exposed to messages, disinformation and conspiracy theories; taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic where children, some of them up to 13 years of age, to be radicalized online and at school by extremist groups.
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