If you ask me, we should be worried more about global oxygen starvation than for example "treating" sleep apnea as a "dysfunction"! Like maybe with many a child "diagnosed" (and drugged) for ADHD we may have it all backwards. These increases in individual events are symptomatic of larger crises. Oxygen depravation and cultural psychosis! I strongly believe many of us are duped and focus on the straw syndrome instead of recognizing the full contexts of our times. Everything being industrialized and corporatized we've switched off our critical minds, in favor of immediate succor--rather than proactive precautionary behavior and preventative measures. We're stuck on a treadmill of production and consumption. When will it stop? When the oxygen has finally dwindled to a death dealing level. Never mind tracking your carbon footprint, how about measuring the oxygen around your head, the air in your home, your work place, your PLANET! If you're falling asleep at work alot, you may be tempted to open a window... one day that won't be sufficient anymore.
And if you your toddler is immersed in more devices and mgps-speed imagery than gradual conversant levels of engagement, disaster may await them in the form of impatience with the pace of classroom routine! Alvin Toffler may say "I told you so," but this takes technology to the end of the super highway. In other words, programmed obsolescence of your devices, or mental breakdown from high-speed trading, may be the least of our worries. Vestigial humanity, that's what scares me. We've already detached ourselves from nature and now we're becoming more and detached from each other. It used to be physical distance separated families, now it's a firewall between all of us. And this barrier even the NSA can't breach. So, you may breathe easy where you are now—you survivalists may even feel ready for when the "grid" fails. But without enough oxygen even the camp-fires will go out!
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