{"id":1659,"date":"2011-03-05T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T09:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2011-03-05T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T09:01:27","slug":"brain_freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Brain Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking through Flickr.com this morning.  I’m in the process of uploading my Israel\/Jordan photographs to my account.  I noticed a couple photographs from people I follow and ended up on this guys website.  “Mer<\/a>” is his moniker, perhaps his real name… I’m not sure.  Anyway, one post on his blog caught my attention.  It is entitled, “Anthony’s computer is giving him diverticulitis.<\/a>”  The post is presented as a conversation – whether actual or as commentary I don’t know – between I suspect Mer and Anthony.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t know my best interest.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“It appears that way.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“No I need someone to come into my life….someone maybe hired that comes in and protects me from this culture.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“What?”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“That person would put me on a cultural diet.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“I’m sorry?”<\/p>\n

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“I
\nwould have to go into texting or cable news deprivation for months.
\nThat person would demand me to use a land line for a prescribed amount
\nof time. Putting a lap band around my laptop use.” <\/i><\/div>\n

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“Slapping mobile devices out of your hand.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“This person would come into my life and begin cutting away at the obesity of distraction.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“Sounds like textration.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“I
\nneed this. I love this sort of socialist counselor. I have ran amok.
\nGorged myself on the hedonistic part of the culture and come away with
\ndiseases. All because I like a big bowl of societal High Fructose Corn
\nSyrup.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“Sounds like it includes table spoons of dramatic.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“It
\nis me. I wasn’t built for this society. As a kid I sat with my on
\ninternet; my imagination. Using Army men as play station. I should be 90
\nalready and getting ready to die soon. This disdain for life is coming
\ntoo early. I just need prescriptions of hand written letters,
\nsocializing without cellphones and news deprivation.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“OK. Your point?”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“I can’t do it alone. Somebody has to come in. I need a trainer.”<\/i><\/div>\n

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“You think you could find someone online?”<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Consider the article in this week’s Newsweek<\/a> entitled, “The Science of Making Decisions<\/a>,” or “Brain Freeze,” concerning what the constant barrage of input into our brains does to our brains and our ability to make good decisions:<\/p>\n

“<\/font><\/font>T<\/font>he Twitterization of our
\nculture has revolutionized our lives, but with an unintended
\nconsequence–our overloaded brains freeze when we have to make decisions.”<\/font><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are diminishing returns to the constantly plugged in society.<\/p>\n

So, Mer’s post concerning Anthony’s statement, or conflict with himself – does this present a coming state of mind of many of us?  Everything I read tells me that we need to give our brains a rest.  By doing so, we are able to assimilate, contemplate, and make much more wise and satisfying decisions.<\/p>\n

What happens when immediate trumps wise?

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