While I generally find "TED" lectures to be 'academic infomercials' at best and self-aggrandizement for upper-middle class faux-intellectuals at worse, there are occasional gems in the mud. Here is one:
This is informative not only for porn addicts, but lots of other stimulus-based addictions. While rather brief, he cuts to the chase and makes an excellent argument for treating internet addiction through abstinence.
The rewiring process that young people are experiencing is what is most troubling, and something we should all be aware of. I have railed time and again on this blog about how we are creating a generation of addicts.
At the lecturer states here, once a man is liberated from his addiction, his real potential is released. I think many of our social problems today are the results of so many people being doped up on porn, alcohol, drugs, food, & and the many other addictions that are holding us hostage.
We are being oppressed by a new 'Opiate of the People' that keeps us obedient to politicians and marketing executives. The ruling classes from all the various parties have come expect us not to think critically, and they have found it is easier to keep people stoned than to really engage in the risky business of leading.
We are so doped up we have no idea what our children are being taught, or what they are being exposed to. As this lecturerer states, kids are getting into porn in their early teens, at a time when their parents are supposed to be in charge of their home lives. Instead, mom and dad are just as enthralled by their own popular hypnosis.
Our children are being damaged, and we are too wrapped up in our own selfishness to notice. Porn is becoming part of the new serfdom, where mankind is being locked up by addictions and dependencies. Our votes and our 'voluntary cooperation' with the system are being installed so that we can be controlled through Pavlovian responses rather than independent thought.
This brain chemistry is meant to wash away critical thinking. It is working. Just look around.
An interesting lecture, thank you for posting. Archbishop Lazar Puhalo touches on some of these things in his "Neurobiology of Sin".
ReplyDeleteI recently watched a debate on pornography which features Dr Robert Lefever, who runs an addiction clinic, thought it might be of interest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AASzf68w1JU