0:00:00 - 0:00:25 So I've got a news article here that, that uh is rehashed from the Epic Times. The title is a new type of dementia Plagues America. And it's about what's called digital dementia, which is when one part of the brain is overstimulated. And another part of the brain is unders stimulated. It says when we 0:00:25 - 0:00:48 mindlessly use digital devices, the frontal lobe which is responsible for higher level executive functions gets little if any use. Meanwhile, the occipital lobe, the visual processor located at the back of the brain gets bombarded with sensory input. Um If you don't think that's happening left and right 0:00:48 - 0:01:19 . Here's a statistic. An American 8 to 12 years old spends an average 4.7 hours a day scrolling on their phone that's 70 days a year. And uh that prefrontal cortex is still under development until around the age of 25. It's responsible for planning and decision making. So the claim is, and there's research 0:01:18 - 0:01:45 linked here to show it that excessive screen time creates all kinds of problems, including impediments to short term and long term memory. So there is actually a physical shrinking of the brain's gray matter. Now, this makes sense because uh not so directly but your brain somewhat like a muscle in your 0:01:45 - 0:02:09 body, you can grow and atrophy parts of it. And this is literally true. So I know this because uh I enjoy playing drums. I won't call myself a drummer, but I enjoy playing every once in a while, every once in a great while it turns out. But um when I first started to play, it was extraordinarily difficult 0:02:08 - 0:02:31 to use your hands and feet to use my hands and feet. I don't use your hands and feet when I'm drumming. That'd really be something. Um Because you, you're, you've got these different body parts that you don't typically use in unison in a non consistent way. Like if you're walking or running, it's a repetitive 0:02:30 - 0:02:52 , you only have to learn one motion, but when you're playing the drums, those are beats and you have to operate the four appendages involved at different rhythms and that's quite something to have to learn. It turns out that the base of your brain actually grows as you do this, which is pretty crazy 0:02:52 - 0:03:17 . At least that's what I read somewhere some time ago unless I'm completely making that up. But I don't think I am because I don't have digital dementia yet. Although if you watch all my videos, you might get it. So it turns out that not only are they measuring shrinkage in gray matter in mostly young 0:03:16 - 0:03:48 people. Um The, the average IQ in the west. I really hate that term. The west, let's call it for what it is in. Rich nations is declining. The average IQ in wealthy nations is declining and it's been that way for decades. So that's super interesting. Um So there was a measurement of increased IQ for 0:03:48 - 0:04:17 quite some time in the same nations and that was called the Flynn effect. So IQ was going up generationally and now it's going the other way. It's, it's, it's nose diving. So it's very much a case of you lose it or I'm sorry, you use it or you lose it and it wouldn't be so bad if it was only intellectual 0:04:17 - 0:04:46 decline. Uh Society is definitely declining in many other ways. There's a spiritual corruption, a psychological corruption, um a physical corruption. So that here's a quote, the country is becoming fatter sicker, older and dumber. Those are all facts. Those aren't judgmental statements. You can measure 0:04:45 - 0:05:08 fatness, you can measure health, you can measure age, average age cause they're not having babies, people aren't having babies. And I too, the country is becoming fatter sicker, older and dumber. Now, I've told you before, complex systems, one of their properties are, they're particularly sensitive to 0:05:08 - 0:05:36 change if those changes are happening and they are across most of the people in this and other countries like this and they are. What do you think's gonna happen? Bad stuff in short, that stuff. So I imagine a table a big old table, kitchen table and imagine it's one of those kitchen tables that only 0:05:36 - 0:05:59 has one post. So it's got a single column in the center. But instead of having the feet that go out towards the, the, the rim of the table, it's just the column, it's just balance there and it is piled high with stuff and we start playing Django on the kitchen table. Do you wanna place bets on which 0:05:58 - 0:06:25 of the next removals is gonna cause the whole thing to topple because that's what's going on right now. So, something to think about. Uh in summary, good grief. People. Please don't let your adolescent Children have unrestricted cell phone access. There really isn't a good reason in general for them 0:00:00 - 0:00:25 So I've got a news article here that, that uh is rehashed from the Epic Times. The title is a new type of dementia Plagues America. And it's about what's called digital dementia, which is when one part of the brain is overstimulated. And another part of the brain is unders stimulated. It says when we 0:00:25 - 0:00:48 mindlessly use digital devices, the frontal lobe which is responsible for higher level executive functions gets little if any use. Meanwhile, the occipital lobe, the visual processor located at the back of the brain gets bombarded with sensory input. Um If you don't think that's happening left and right 0:00:48 - 0:01:19 . Here's a statistic. An American 8 to 12 years old spends an average 4.7 hours a day scrolling on their phone that's 70 days a year. And uh that prefrontal cortex is still under development until around the age of 25. It's responsible for planning and decision making. So the claim is, and there's research 0:01:18 - 0:01:45 linked here to show it that excessive screen time creates all kinds of problems, including impediments to short term and long term memory. So there is actually a physical shrinking of the brain's gray matter. Now, this makes sense because uh not so directly but your brain somewhat like a muscle in your 0:01:45 - 0:02:09 body, you can grow and atrophy parts of it. And this is literally true. So I know this because uh I enjoy playing drums. I won't call myself a drummer, but I enjoy playing every once in a while, every once in a great while it turns out. But um when I first started to play, it was extraordinarily difficult 0:02:08 - 0:02:31 to use your hands and feet to use my hands and feet. I don't use your hands and feet when I'm drumming. That'd really be something. Um Because you, you're, you've got these different body parts that you don't typically use in unison in a non consistent way. Like if you're walking or running, it's a repetitive 0:02:30 - 0:02:52 , you only have to learn one motion, but when you're playing the drums, those are beats and you have to operate the four appendages involved at different rhythms and that's quite something to have to learn. It turns out that the base of your brain actually grows as you do this, which is pretty crazy 0:02:52 - 0:03:17 . At least that's what I read somewhere some time ago unless I'm completely making that up. But I don't think I am because I don't have digital dementia yet. Although if you watch all my videos, you might get it. So it turns out that not only are they measuring shrinkage in gray matter in mostly young 0:03:16 - 0:03:48 people. Um The, the average IQ in the west. I really hate that term. The west, let's call it for what it is in. Rich nations is declining. The average IQ in wealthy nations is declining and it's been that way for decades. So that's super interesting. Um So there was a measurement of increased IQ for 0:03:48 - 0:04:17 quite some time in the same nations and that was called the Flynn effect. So IQ was going up generationally and now it's going the other way. It's, it's, it's nose diving. So it's very much a case of you lose it or I'm sorry, you use it or you lose it and it wouldn't be so bad if it was only intellectual 0:04:17 - 0:04:46 decline. Uh Society is definitely declining in many other ways. There's a spiritual corruption, a psychological corruption, um a physical corruption. So that here's a quote, the country is becoming fatter sicker, older and dumber. Those are all facts. Those aren't judgmental statements. You can measure 0:04:45 - 0:05:08 fatness, you can measure health, you can measure age, average age cause they're not having babies, people aren't having babies. And I too, the country is becoming fatter sicker, older and dumber. Now, I've told you before, complex systems, one of their properties are, they're particularly sensitive to 0:05:08 - 0:05:36 change if those changes are happening and they are across most of the people in this and other countries like this and they are. What do you think's gonna happen? Bad stuff in short, that stuff. So I imagine a table a big old table, kitchen table and imagine it's one of those kitchen tables that only 0:05:36 - 0:05:59 has one post. So it's got a single column in the center. But instead of having the feet that go out towards the, the, the rim of the table, it's just the column, it's just balance there and it is piled high with stuff and we start playing Django on the kitchen table. Do you wanna place bets on which 0:05:58 - 0:06:25 of the next removals is gonna cause the whole thing to topple because that's what's going on right now. So, something to think about. Uh in summary, good grief. People. Please don't let your adolescent Children have unrestricted cell phone access. There really isn't a good reason in general for them 0:06:25 - 0:06:45 to have a phone if you do the research and you should, the costs are extremely high. And that's not to say there's never a case for someone having one, a kid, having one, but good grief. Uh You may as well give a meth. It's, it's bad.