"Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children

[Stephen D. Williams]

With a good critical thinking base, it is fairly easy to avoid the 'evil' of technology and technology-enabled communications while
benefiting greatly from broad knowledge, understanding, and, ideally, beneficial connections.  If you are limited to or you choose
the path of ignorance, you may fall for anything.

Good critical thinking capability, along with a good awareness of scams, cognitive bias mistake patterns, and risk analysis, is a
multi-layered defense-in-depth system, with the penultimate safety of a cognitive-enabled application level firewall.  Lesser mental
architectures try to stop everything with a port-based firewalls or anti-virus, but they're wide open to easily constructed phishing
and zero-day attack.  Openness to memetic infection is like allowing anyone to run code as root at the host level rather than in a
throwaway Docker container.  The opposite problem is being so afraid of being taken again that you won't incorporate anything new
because you don't trust that you can discriminate.  That's a lot like refusing to update your software for fear of exploit but
leaving yourself open to now-known bugs and gaps that have been fixed.  Or you simply are used to your current pattern and dislike
change; to be safe, you may reject most input.

I left home at 15 and taught myself programming etc., so I have a bias toward self-sufficiency:  I didn't believe in sheltering my
children except at the extremes; they are thoroughly resistant to memetic infection.

sdw

On 9/6/16 10:55 AM, Peressim wrote:
> My neice now at age of 10 years old, spend hours on youtube, and I am not concerned if she is catching bugs, or figuring out that
> the internet is slow, but instead I am concerned that the evil the techonology is making to happen to our children, besides the
> evil that it is also doing to us. Technology must be avoided as much as we can. The trully malware is not affecting our computers,
> but our minds. 
>
> Sent from ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com>, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children
>> Local Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 12:00 AM
>> UTC Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 03:00
>> From: rayzer at riseup.net
>> To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks at lists.cpunks.org>
>>
>> A friend of mine about her four year old:
>>
>> "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was
>> really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering"
>>
>> Rr
>>
>
sdw

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