Most Americans Are Willingly Enslaved To The Media Matrix
By Michael Snyder - End of The America Dream Blog June 30, 2016 Share this article:
Did you know that the average U.S. adult consumes 10 hours and 39
minutes of media a day? Nielsen has just released brand new numbers on
the media consumption patterns of Americans, and they are absolutely
staggering.
According to Nielsen, the amount of media
that we consume per day has increased by an hour just since the first
quarter of 2015.
This is the time of the year
when we celebrate our independence, but how in the world can we ever be
truly independent when most of us are willingly plugging ourselves into
"the Matrix" for more than 10 hours a day?
If
you feed anything into your mind for hours every day, it is going to
change the way that you think, the way that you feel about things, and
the way that you view the world.
This endless
barrage of "news" and "entertainment" has fundamentally altered the
belief systems of tens of millions of Americans, and this has very
serious implications for our society moving forward.
According
to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, brainwashing is "a forcible
indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or
religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented
ideas". But nobody is forcing us to plug into "the Matrix" every day.
Instead,
this is something that we are willingly doing to ourselves. In fact,
Nielsen says that Americans are doing it more than ever before...
If you feel like you're spending more time than ever before watching and streaming content, you're right.
U.S.
adults spent 10 hours, 39 minutes a day consuming media in the first
quarter of 2016. That's up a full hour from the first quarter of 2015,
and it's thanks to a substantial increase in smartphone and tablet
usage, according to Nielsen's Q1 2016 Total Audience Report.
Here is how the 10 hours and 39 minutes breaks down by type of device...
Live TV: 4 hours, 31 minutes
Time-Shifted TV: 33 minutes
Radio: 1 hour, 52 minutes
DVDs: 8 minutes
Video Game Consoles: 14 minutes
Multimedia Devices (Apple TV, Roku, etc.): 13 minutes
Internet on PC: 58 minutes
Smartphone: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Tablet: 31 minutes
These days, there is a lot of talk about various "agendas" that are being advanced in our country.
Well,
just about whatever "agenda" you want to talk about, the main way it is
being advanced is through these devices. Our televisions, our radios,
our DVD players and even our computers are constantly telling us what to
think, and this has resulted in a population of brainwashed "sheeple"
that is more closely resembling a horde of mindless zombies with each
passing year.
Who do you think controls the
vast majority of the "news" and "entertainment" that we consume? As I
wrote about just recently, more than 90 percent of what we get through
our televisions is controlled by just six giant media corporations, and
in turn they are controlled by the elite of the world.
Do you really want the elite telling you what to think?
And
the Internet has become highly controlled as well. Fortunately there
are still many independent websites such as this one where you can hear
an alternative point of view, but increasingly web traffic is coming to
be dominated by just a handful of giant companies.
This
is of great concern when it comes to our young people, because they are
spending an enormous amount of time on the Internet...
The majority of Americans - 73 percent - indicated that they go online on a daily basis, and many go on several times per day.
A
Pew Research Center survey collected data from internet users between
June and July 2015, and confirmed that Americans are constantly logging
in.
Young people are the most connected; the
study found that 36 percent of people ages 18 to 29 are online almost
constantly, and 50 per cent go on several times per day.
It
has been estimated that there are 54,907 Google searches, 7,252 tweets
written, 125,406 YouTube videos viewed and 2,501,018 emails sent out
every second.
So what is all of this "information" doing to us?
Dr
Lee Hadlington of De Montford University Leicester has made some
troubling discoveries regarding this excessive Internet use...
He
found the more times a person used the internet or a mobile phone the
more likely they were to experience 'cognitive failures'.
These
failures included not turning up to appointments, having trouble paying
attention while in conversation and forgetting why they went to one
part of the house to another.
'This is a very
under-examined area and a very important one. We are using technology on
a daily basis but we don't understand its effect on us,' said Dr
Hadlington.
Of much greater importance is what
this endless barrage of information is doing to our belief systems. We
are willingly enslaving ourselves to a "matrix" that is deeply
anti-Christian, and it was inevitable that this would result in the
decaying of the Christian foundations of the western world.
The following is an excerpt from an absolutely outstanding article that was just published by Jonathon Van Maren...
And
yet, the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West that brought such
success and such prosperity have either been removed or are in the final
stages of demolition.
The sanctity of life is
gone, but most of us have not noticed simply because we do not toss the
corpses of the murdered out the front door into the street, but quietly
deposit them in dumpsters behind clinics or vaporize them in modern,
up-to-date incinerators.
New ideologies have
taken over our legal systems, and the short march to labeling Holy
Scripture as Hate Speech has already begun. The number of citizens who
still attend church or are even aware that Christianity was the
life-blood of our civilization is plummeting.
Things
may be peaceful for the moment, but the dark clouds in the distance
bulge with thunder and the rumblings have already begun: Christian
universities are told they are ineligible to start a law school because
they believe what Christians have always believed, Christian medical
professionals are told they will be forced to refer patients for
killing, and Christian professionals are subjected to "formal
investigations" at the slightest hint that they have violated the new
secular religion.
This is just the calm before
the storm, but because Christians are so distracted with the high drama
of ordinary day-to-day life, they may not hear the rumblings until
thunder splits the sky.
As I warn in my new
book, America is really starting to feel the consequences of decades of
walking away from the Christian faith.
But how are we going to turn this around?
Many
of the exact same people that are expressing dismay over all of this
are the exact same people that turn their televisions on as soon as they
get home and don't turn them off until they go to sleep at night.
As
long as we all remain willingly plugged into "the Matrix", we are
fighting a losing battle, and that is just the way that it is.
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