17th and 21st centuries - The difference between slaves and smartphone users? Different shackles, but same thing…

Cobalt mining: phones are dripping with the blood and sweat of children!

Their brains are now completely dependent on the devices and they are completely enslaved. Think about it, if someone carried a bible with them everywhere and couldn't sit anywhere without the bible being on the table... you'd say they were a religious fanatic. But because the phones are shiny, it's all good, right?

Phones have tentacles

Freedom is a state of mind (boy encaged with his smartphone)

Phone with a sardonic expression - by Ricardo Condotti

Modern slaves or prisoners

You are my slave!

Bow to your master!

China introduces mandatory Communist app -You are not on your smartphone enough!

"In this New World, we must accept transparency, and I'll even say total transparency. Banking secrecy, everything is going to be transparent, and you have to get used to it, you have to behave accordingly. It becomes, how should I put it, integrated in your personality, but if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid."- Klaus Schwab (speaking to a French journalist). The World Economic Forum has been quietly granted backdoor access to billions of cellphones. According to inside sources from the WEF, there’s a cunning plot brewing. The organisation is compiling extensive "blacklists" of users who dare to express "politically incorrect" views or engage in perceived "wrongspeak". The WEF’s ambitions extend far beyond mere lists as they intend to categorise the populace into two distinct groups: the compliant and the “deplorables", which will help assigning social credit scores to people, before the social credit scheme is officially rolled out in the next coming years. Our trusted cellphones, once symbols of liberation and connectivity, have become the WEF’s trojan horses. These intimate devices, cradled in our hands and nestled in our pockets, may now grant the WEF unfettered access into our thoughts, opinions, and actions.

I love my new smarphone! You should get one! It even talks to me. If I don't know something, it will tell me what to do or where to go! -I get enough of that in my life already!

It's called reading, it's how you install new software into your brain

14 passengers, 1 book...

Is there a nearby UFO? Is this an alien entity?

A real book these days is as rare and precious as a pearl, in a sea of phones…

The ideal anti-smartphones umbrella

Wow! It's hyper modern! There's no download time, cable, plug or batteries. And what do you call it? -A book!

Literature in a coffin

It's over book, you're an inferior technology. Your big, clunky format is irrelevant. Just a nip of this flame and you'd be gone forever! -[tap]

Why we read

'The Last Book' by artist sculptor Mela Cooke, bronze, Montalto sculpture prize - "This sculpture represents the sad demise of one of my favourite things, the book. Today it is so rare to see children with a book in their hands. Instead I see children holding screens. Whilst a screen can and does provide information, and even stories, it is the future loss of that physical entity which saddens me deeply."

A book vs "shark"phones

"Amazon 451", the digital burning of books and why we should read books on paper: A book read from a screen is a book not physically printed. This is the first way of "burning" a book. In 'Fahrenheit 451' (1953), Ray Bradbury imagined a tyranny in which books were burnt by pyromaniac fire brigades. If 451°F refers to the auto-ignition point of paper, there are other ways of digital combustion: censoring, erasing, altering or restricting access to books in e-formats, attacking authors, or indifference. How cynical to be calling reading machines Kindle and Fire! In 2009, copies of George Orwell’s 1984 were deleted from all Kindle users who had downloaded it. Retraction of digital books is so easy, that claims of copyright violation or plagiarism can have a digital book virtually ripped out of the hands of buyers. "When has Amazon ever thought about anything other than world domination ? " - Lydia Leong, New York Times. This will be relevant as long as we keep reading books from screens and as digital materials are increasingly commonplace in schools and other educational environments.

Books for the fittest, screens for the disabled

Benefits of books (1)

Benefits of books (2)

Man on his smartphone says 'Are you going to read the whole time? That's so rude!'

I think those are broken websites. No matter how many times you click the pictures, nothing happens.

Instead of powering it up, you just turn the cover to get started! And instead of clicking on 'next page' all you do is turn it! Pretty cool, ay?

A book, you say... Uh... What do I plug it into? -Your mind

Meanwhile, in a parallel world…

Of books, boats and tablets…

I have an even smaller wireless device that gives me access to thousands of books and movies… It's a library card.

Pssst. How do you turn this thing on?

Different

This picture says 1000 words about the new generation

Many young people know a lot about technology, but little about values and moral

The seven deadly sins: Lust, Tinder - Gluttony, Yelp - Greed, Lindedin - Sloth, Netflix - Wrath, Twitter - Envy, Facebook - Pride, Instagram

'Worship me' vs 'Holy Bible'

What if be began to treat our bibles the way we treat our cell phones?

St. George destroying an evil iPhone

Attack of the screens

Wide screen for mice

Back in my day cats used to play with strings...

Today's generation!

TV screens blocking reality, that bird symbolizes freedom

Evolution of screens and sizes

TV screen, before and now - no more comfort for the cat!

TV has the power to.. steal your time, drain your savings, distract your world views, destroy your relationships

Screens sucking out our brains

What consumes your mind controls your life.

TV screen poking a man's brain

Screens, screens and more screens

Stop watching - Psalm 101-3

Book vs TV

You become like the TV!

What avid gamers could look like in 20 years - Researchers made a model that depicts what "avid gamers" would look like in 20 years if they kept up with their daily habits. The hunched model has pale skin, bloodshot eyes, swollen ankles from lack of movement, & an indented skull from headphones.

What avid gamers could look like in 20 years (detailed model)

When I was your age, I defeated the nazis in Holland. -On Xbox or Playstation?

Graffiti 'Don't watch TV' - Read a book

What if I told you - Television is the monster in your home and it's called programming for a reason. Your television is nothing more than an electronic mind altering device. It has been designed to psychologically change the ways you view reality

Tell Lie Vision - Not a phone but same ballpark

Consume and Conform

© No Slave Collar 2020 - ∞ all rights reserved