It seems people…are losing their minds. Not completely, but incrementally. The human race as a whole is becoming less thoughtful, less intelligent, less discerning, and less reflective. We are gorging ourselves on a diet of “thought-candy”, not meat. Meat requires chewing and chewing means work.
Thought-candy is sweet and melts in your mind. It includes things like celebrity news, trite, thoughtless memes, and ready-made, predigested political ideas we already know and agree with. Those things are not bad in themselves, but they do not challenge us.
But those are precisely the foundation blocks of social media. And researchers at Cornell University and Beijing University have found that “re-tweeting” and “re-posting” in the various social media interferes with learning and memory. Noticeably and quickly.
Preoccupation with social media is robbing young people of the tangible human interaction needed for physical and psychological health. The new technology filters out our humanity and isolates us from other human beings — the tone of the voice, the twinkle in the eye, the touch of a hand.
As a result, we are raising a generation of emotionally and sociologically stunted people who find it hard to learn, to reason, to reflect, or to think things through. In 2 Timothy 3:6-7, Paul seemed to describe the social media generation when he wrote, “…led by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
I think this situation has profound prophetic implications. Technology intended to empower humanity has made it weak-minded and easily manipulated. Technology intended to bring people together has made them friendless and alone. In its isolation, members of this generation have created worlds of unseen, imaginary “friends” who “like” them. By excluding real people from their lives and focusing on currying the favor of people they don’t even know, they are preparing themselves to fall into the trap of a man who will, undoubtedly, be a master of the social media — the Antichrist.
transmitted by Hal Lindsey – 5/6/2016
