March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Have you heard about the recent study that found most people's social media lives, in other words, the things they post to social media, the photographs, the place they live, the objects in their possession, and so on, Are all fake. | |
| It's all staged by people who are desperate to one-up all of their friends on social media and I think it's sick and I think it's a sign of our society culturally imploding...into total fiction, | |
| total delusion, total fairy tale land, which, by the way, also mirrors what's happening with us economically and politically and even with the food supply and GMO agriculture and so on. | |
| Our whole world seems to be devolving into just delusions and fairy tales. | |
| So, of course, social media would reflect that. | |
| But I find this fascinating that people think they're going to be more popular... | |
| And perhaps maybe they are, but in a bad way. | |
| If they post all these glamorous photos, oh, I was at this exotic destination. | |
| I was on a cruise boat. | |
| I bought a new brand name purse. | |
| Look at this pair of jeans. | |
| Oh, I got a new car. | |
| Look how clean my apartment is. | |
| Look how amazing my kitchen is. | |
| You know, on and on and on. | |
| And what we've come to find out is that people who do this kind of thing, like their apartment is only clean on one half, the half that's visible to their webcam. | |
| The other half is a complete nightmare, cluttered. | |
| In other words, their life is a stage. | |
| Their apartment is a set. | |
| It's all theater. | |
| They are creating an illusion that To try to make you think that they are more popular or better off than they really are. | |
| And this was all brought to light recently when one woman, and I don't recall her name, and it doesn't matter what her name was, she was one of these very, very successful social media elitist type of people, and she had posted all these amazing photos at these exotic and she had posted all these amazing photos at these exotic travel destinations and tour areas and so | |
| And just, I think, an hour after posting one of these photos, she committed suicide. | |
| She committed suicide because she was so unhappy with her life that she decided she'd rather die than live. | |
| And so this is a very instructive lesson that even though if you read her social media account, she was physically attracted. | |
| She had a handsome husband. | |
| They were very successful financially. | |
| They knew all the right people, had all the right cars and a house and just on down the list. | |
| Everything that matters to materialistic people. | |
| And they had it covered and they were part of the social elite. | |
| And yet, they were miserable. | |
| And in reality, at least the woman, could not stand to live. | |
| So, what does this mean then? | |
| As a culture, what does this mean for society? | |
| It means that social media, instead of bringing people closer together, is actually driving people apart from And possibly making them suicidal. | |
| And instead of social media making people feel better about themselves, in most cases social media is making people feel worse. | |
| Because they feel like they cannot compete with the images that their friends are posting. | |
| They feel like they're not as well off as their friends, even though their friends are totally faking it. | |
| So it causes more people to feel depressed. | |
| You know how people often feel depressed when they're flipping through the pages of a magazine, you know, like Glamour magazine, or I don't even know what all the magazines are, but the fashion magazines that always feature these photoshopped women that aren't even real. | |
| You know, if they were walking down the street without makeup and without photoshopped They wouldn't even be attractive, but they're on the cover because of the miracles of photo editing and makeup and cosmetics. | |
| Anyway, the purpose of these magazines, it seems, in society is to make everybody feel... | |
| Especially women. | |
| To make women feel insignificant and to demean them so that they feel like they have to catch up by purchasing the latest perfumes and skin care products and brand name clothing and fashion items like that. | |
| So if you really look at the big picture of what's happening here, you have people who are depressed and suicidal posting images that are fake to make their friends jealous, causing their friends to be all suicidal and depressed. | |
| And this is why you have tens of millions of people in America on anti-depressive drugs and plugging into social media every 30 seconds frantically seeking approval. | |
| You know, one more like from one more friend and desperately staging and borrowing brand name purses from their friends so they can take a photo with them with the purse. | |
| And say it's theirs, you know, and they don't even own it. | |
| This is total cultural suicide, really, if you think about it. | |
| It's just one of the side effects of social media, which is a relatively new beast for our modern society, of course. | |
| And as far as I can tell, there's nothing good about it. | |
| I think social media, in fact, is destroying society in many ways. | |
| There surely are some benefits for it, getting the word out on important subjects, for example, bypassing the mainstream media, perhaps. | |
| But if you look at the actual structure of social media and what it's causing and what it's doing to society, you find a lot more negatives than positives. | |
| A lot of depression, some suicide. | |
| But also the spreading of false information and false memes that go viral because some institution, some corporation or government is manipulating people and using social media to spread false messages that promote their interests. | |
| The other problem with social media is that it causes all kinds of people to chime in on subjects for which they're wholly unqualified to comment. | |
| And in particular, I'm talking about our nation's youth. | |
| Young people, and I mean like teenagers and people in their 20s for the most part, simply don't have enough life experience to be able to comment intelligently on things like the economy and financial reality, the stock market, or even politics for that matter. | |
| Personally, I think the idea that someone who's Even 21 or 24, for them to have the right to vote in society is potentially a huge mistake, unless they happen to be an exceptionally gifted and intelligent person. | |
| Most people today in that age group are not old enough to have lived through the dot-com market crash. | |
| They're not old enough to Have lived through the Clinton scandals of the 1990s. | |
| They don't know who Vince Foster is and why he was killed by the Clintons for knowing too much. | |
| They really do not have the necessary life experience to say much of anything that's wise. | |
| And yet they tend to dominate social media. | |
| So this is why social media, including Twitter and Facebook, has become... | |
| Really sort of a cesspool of idiocy and delusions and just... | |
| People who really have no business chiming in on any serious subject, unfortunately swaying public opinion on those subjects, they can, through their social media campaigns, they can appear to be a vast majority. | |
| They can shout down someone doing something they don't like. | |
| They can attack someone. | |
| For political reasons, or they can attack religious people, which has happened quite a lot in assaults on the First Amendment and religious freedom and so on. | |
| So, you know, social media has a real dark side that isn't being... | |
| I think that politicians in Washington, for example, and corporations especially, pay far too much attention to outbursts on social media. | |
| They don't realize that a lot of those... | |
| Comments are actually posted by robots and scripts, not real people, and yet they equate it with real people as if there were a crowd of people standing outside their corporate headquarters marching and screaming and holding signs, but it's really just a bunch of robots posting on Facebook or Twitter. | |
| So I think society has a lot to learn. | |
| We need to grow up and evolve past this early stage of the social media rollout. | |
| In the meantime, a lot of people are being really harmed by it. | |
| A lot of people are suffering from depression that's unnecessary, and what they really need to do is turn off their computers, get off the damn Facebook social media parade, and go out and take a hike in nature. | |
| You know, do something in the real world. | |
| Because the real world is based in, obviously, reality, and it's going to be healing and not going to let you down. | |
| It's not going to make you feel horrible about who you are the way social media is. | |
| Social media, by and large, is pure fiction. | |
| And I just think it's fascinating that so many people who are posting are creating these fabricated fictional lives. | |
| When I post, I've actually thought about doing a series called My Non-Glamorous Life, where I post photos of the non-glamorous mundane things I'm doing on the ranch, sometimes knee-deep in mud, drenched in rain, chopping wood, or... | |
| Taking care of rescuing a baby donkey from the cold and drying it with a blow dryer, which I actually had to do recently. | |
| Or repairing a tractor or a piece of farm machinery in the rain, in the mud. | |
| You know, I don't own any fancy brand name clothes or jewelry or cars or homes or anything. | |
| I live a very mundane life. | |
| And I just think that's more authentic. | |
| And I really, I'm tired of everybody trying to fake the fact that they think they're glamorous when they're not. | |
| And they're actually suicidal. | |
| So keep all that in mind. | |
| Don't let social media get you down. | |
| you're probably way better off than most of your friends because they're faking it. | |
| Well, thank you for listening to this episode of the Health Ranger Report. | |
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