It's reported that Facebook is planning on releasing an updated, improved and cheaper Oculus Rift VR headset in 2018. Currently Facebook is only fourth in the global virtual reality market. Before this is all over, 'this' meaning the world's totalitarian drift, the four or five top tech giants will have the world's population firmly under control. Facebook itself has been a plague and now Twitter is causing further havoc in cognitive skills and emotional well-being. Plain and simple....we are being dumbed-down to the point that half of Americans today are virtual robots and many are emotional wrecks.
It began with narcissism. A number of genuinely intellectual books warned as early as the 1960s that the culture was dying. One that comes to mind was Christopher Lasch's National Book Award winning ( current interest 1980) The Culture of Narcissism. Another would be the Pulitzer Prize winning (general non-fiction) 1964 Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.
Facebook basically says to all...."hey everyone....come on over here and pay attention to me....look at all the cool things I do....I'm really something......come back often because I get better all the time." It is the absolute antithesis of who the Bible says that we should be, and because of this idolatry, wasted time and energy, we in the Christian church have been weakened considerably in discernment. Did you see the news articles yesterday about evangelicals in the Oval Office laying hands on President Trump? What did you think? Ah...there you have it.....my point is proven!
I wrote the following in a post three years ago:
"... Prominent psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow wrote an opinion piece that Fox News titled Facebook Twists Reality Again And Risks Ruining Your Children. Those are pretty strong words. According to the article, Facebook recently acquired, for $2 billion, a company called Oculus VR (virtual reality). This company is working on and taking pre-orders for a head mounted display, a headset, designed for immersive virtual reality....
Dr. Ablow concludes with his "theory" that "Facebook is an addictive technology drug that, like every drug, gives people temporary pleasure and, ultimately, causes many people to become psychiatrically ill" and that "geniuses" like Zuckerberg are "precipitating an epidemic of psychiatric illness---with features of narcissism and depression and dissociation and violent behavior---such as the world has never known." His parting sentence is "Eventually, we will realize that visionaries like Zuckerberg were, at best, blind to the harm they were doing."
There is no stopping Facebook and other tech giants. My posts warning of Facebook, and there have been many, are only meant to encourage the reader to get away from this plague while there is still time. I've lamented how wonderful Christian ministries promote their Facebook pages. Even Dr. Ablow as a Facebook page! I have three of R. C. Sproul's Study Bibles on the shelf in front of me ready to be given away to the person who I think needs a good Study Bible and needs one right away. I picked up an R.C. Sproul book in the bookstore the other day with the sole purpose of giving it away at the proper time. This has been standard practice for decades. We have a stack of Ligonier Ministry's Tabletalk Magazine going back over twenty years. I've read almost every book that R. C. Sproul has written...including the children's books...listened to his sermons for decades....and regularly listen to them today on either refnet.fm or ligonier.org......all without ever seeing their Facebook page! Not only does God not need Facebook....His Word to us is chock-full of descriptions on avoiding the very things that Facebook supplies.
Did I go overboard on this warning about Facebook? The ship is sinking folks....ok it's not a white lifeboat it's a blue lifeboat.....at least I turned you around and pointed you to where they are!
It began with narcissism. A number of genuinely intellectual books warned as early as the 1960s that the culture was dying. One that comes to mind was Christopher Lasch's National Book Award winning ( current interest 1980) The Culture of Narcissism. Another would be the Pulitzer Prize winning (general non-fiction) 1964 Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.
Facebook basically says to all...."hey everyone....come on over here and pay attention to me....look at all the cool things I do....I'm really something......come back often because I get better all the time." It is the absolute antithesis of who the Bible says that we should be, and because of this idolatry, wasted time and energy, we in the Christian church have been weakened considerably in discernment. Did you see the news articles yesterday about evangelicals in the Oval Office laying hands on President Trump? What did you think? Ah...there you have it.....my point is proven!
I wrote the following in a post three years ago:
"... Prominent psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow wrote an opinion piece that Fox News titled Facebook Twists Reality Again And Risks Ruining Your Children. Those are pretty strong words. According to the article, Facebook recently acquired, for $2 billion, a company called Oculus VR (virtual reality). This company is working on and taking pre-orders for a head mounted display, a headset, designed for immersive virtual reality....
Dr. Ablow concludes with his "theory" that "Facebook is an addictive technology drug that, like every drug, gives people temporary pleasure and, ultimately, causes many people to become psychiatrically ill" and that "geniuses" like Zuckerberg are "precipitating an epidemic of psychiatric illness---with features of narcissism and depression and dissociation and violent behavior---such as the world has never known." His parting sentence is "Eventually, we will realize that visionaries like Zuckerberg were, at best, blind to the harm they were doing."
There is no stopping Facebook and other tech giants. My posts warning of Facebook, and there have been many, are only meant to encourage the reader to get away from this plague while there is still time. I've lamented how wonderful Christian ministries promote their Facebook pages. Even Dr. Ablow as a Facebook page! I have three of R. C. Sproul's Study Bibles on the shelf in front of me ready to be given away to the person who I think needs a good Study Bible and needs one right away. I picked up an R.C. Sproul book in the bookstore the other day with the sole purpose of giving it away at the proper time. This has been standard practice for decades. We have a stack of Ligonier Ministry's Tabletalk Magazine going back over twenty years. I've read almost every book that R. C. Sproul has written...including the children's books...listened to his sermons for decades....and regularly listen to them today on either refnet.fm or ligonier.org......all without ever seeing their Facebook page! Not only does God not need Facebook....His Word to us is chock-full of descriptions on avoiding the very things that Facebook supplies.
Did I go overboard on this warning about Facebook? The ship is sinking folks....ok it's not a white lifeboat it's a blue lifeboat.....at least I turned you around and pointed you to where they are!
