It really is that damn phone

it really is that damn phone you know it everybody knows it many people don't want to admit it but everybody knows it but a lot of people don't truly understand the magnitude of the problems that it has created or enhanced a lot of people don't but I want to bring you some self-awareness you may disagree you may agree but I guarantee you you'll look at this a lot differently or to support what you already feel by the end of this video but I really want you to let this sink into your brain really sit with

these thoughts really sit with the fact that we've become obsessed with something that is ruining us something that is destroying us it wasn't created for this but it is now as if there wasn't already enough addictions in this world enough vices in this world we have put one on the top and it happens to be one of the most profound of them all we have something that was once the greatest Escape one of the greatest Escapes in the world right we have something that is one of the greatest Escapes in our world world and it

has turned into one of the greatest ways to destroy ourselves that's just the duality of life right but it gets a little bit deeper than that social media phones all these things it has Cooked our brains to the point where a lot of people cannot even enjoy life because they're over stimulated the real world does not compare to this fiction you get to see all these things you get to get all this easy access to all these things to the point where life is not even enjoyable enough and you've been scrolling for way too long

you're wasting time doing a bunch of nothing you're scrolling for way too long if you think about it when you start scrolling it's endless it's endless it's just one big thread and a lot of people you know they like to defend and say oh well I watch all my favorite content and I learn and I do this and I do that and I agree some people are responsible some are but regardless it's about a 10% of what you're consuming that is actually good for you it's about a good 10% maybe it's more I hope it's

more for you right but if you're already in the defense that's going to prove a point I'm going to make earlier but I hope it is but like I said it's about a 10% of all of that content that you consume is actually good for you the other 90% of that junk is frying your brain it's frying your brain and the thing is we sit there and tell ourselves oh I'm watching this I'm connected to the source and I don't want to miss out on this truth and I don't want to miss out on this

information you tell yourself those things to make yourself feel better because the truth is you are afraid of missing out you can't get off social media because you don't want to miss out you don't want to miss out on the trends you don't want to miss out on the gossip you don't want to miss out on watching all this sad stuff and things making you feel more relatable to other people and other thing you don't want to miss out on that the fear of missing out that's really what's the driving force behind all of this

and those aren't even the biggest problems the biggest problems is that all of this junk is playing on your insecurities people are profiting off your insecurities the people that run all of this stuff they are profiting of your insecurities why do you think you see so much sad stuff why do you think it's a trend to be depressed now why do you think all this negativity is being thrown around why do you think there's always some new news thread that's making people scared and making people live in fear and making people fight against each other

and divide and conquer people you got men hating on women women hating on men division conqueror why do you think all these things are going on because people profit off of your suffering people profit off your insecurities people have literally made careers for themselves playing on people's insecurities oh you're some loser stuck in your house and you can't do this and you can't do that buy my million dollar course and do this do this do that do this do that right people are playing on your insecurities and it is some people out there that mean

well and maybe they do have a high price because they think they're valuable I'm not saying every Apple in a bunch is bad that's just the way it goes but the thing is we have gotten so used to consuming things that are bad for us we don't ever question those people you go to McDonald's and get something that's terrible for you you don't question them oh what did you put in it are you trying to kill me well you got somebody out here by their self they got a business they trying to make some money

for their self oh you want to scrutinize them oh your price is too high you do this you do that why you not out here scrutinizing the people that's actually they don't give a damn about you they playing on your insecurities they trying to scam you they trying to kill you they feeding you all this content feeding you all this trash getting you in that same Loop you in now and you wonder why your life changed because you keep doing the same things you keep watching the same things and it keeps you in the same

Loop and if you still not hearing me I want you to hear this right I want you to hear this and that's a pun and you don't even know it yet but social media the phones all this stuff it has enhanced a problem that we had for a long time and it used to not be so much of a problem but the screen has become the enemy the screen has stepped in the middle of things and this is why it gets a little tricky but if you haven't noticed everybody wants to be seen and everybody

wants to be heard it's human nature it's how we are it's what we are some people going to say oh well I don't want to be seen I want to be left alone or I don't want to be heard I don't want anybody to hear me I hate my voice why did you just speak why did you just voice your opinion because you want to be understood or you felt that it was needed for you to explain yourself or explain the way you felt of course you do you're human you want to be seen you

want to be heard why do you think we have virtual prostitutes because people want to be seen people want to be heard why do you think we have all these activists speaking on this and speaking on that because people want to be seen people want to be heard why do you think it's a bunch of people with Mommy and Daddy Issues all over the Internet scrutinizing everybody else or just being hurt expressing their trauma because everybody wants to be seen everybody wants to be heard it is our human nature and we have built up a

platform that has gave so many people voices but it's also messed everything up it's distorted reality because you got a million and trillion people on these social media platforms but it's only a million up here that's getting thousands and millions of views and everybody else seeing it they like man how can I put in all this work and get three views but they put in a little amount of work and they get millions of views that's what it has that's what it has created that's the mindset is created which is also a toxic mindset because

if three people walk up to the average person you going to get freaked out because three people is a lot of people that's a lot of energy but three compared to a million that's minuscule that comparison Factor so y always got to be compared to somebody because that's what we see that's what we consume and then you hating on somebody who's more successful than you in a certain moment you comparing the beginning of your journey to somebody who's on level 55 but that's what you see and you want to feel heard you want to be

understood you want to be a star in your own right you may not want to be a musician you may not want to be an activist you may not want to be a YouTuber or a teacher whatever it is but you still want to be seen you still want to be heard you want the things that you work on to be appreciated you want to be appreciated you want to be seen and you want to be heard it is the roote to damnn near all of our problems all of our stress all of our depression

that friend you lost you wanted to be seen you want to be heard the person you tried to explain your truth to and they didn't want to hear you you wanted to be seen you wanted to be heard the friends that didn't see you you was always the third friend in the group or you was always that one by yourself nobody listened to you nobody seen you you tied your shoes they kept walking you wanted to be seen you wanted to be heard every time you step up to talk about something you proud of nobody

listens and you feel bad you want it to be seen you want it to be heard but the thing is social media has given us a platform to speak that's why you see a lot of people posting some people are content some people are don't they posted anything I guarantee in this week something that I just mentioned happened or you post a video and you sat there and contemplated about posting them because you didn't get the views or likes you wanted or you was mad at somebody else or you felt some type of way because

somebody else was doing a little something on social media that you wasn't or somebody else had something that you wanted or somebody else was being understood in the way that you wanted to be understood something has happened in the last few days in the last 24 hours in your life that made you want to be seen and want to be heard really think about what I'm saying but this is what social media is enhancing to the point point where people don't see consequence people will say anything but it all comes from wanting to be seen

wan to be heard oh you think you're this oh you think you're that people just comment that on your videos on your pictur you're like bro I don't know you you don't know me instead of assuming something about me based off of you being hurt in some certain situation why not just ask me a question why not making you know a little Q&A instead of you putting these assumptions on people instead of you projecting how you feel in here instead of you putting that on people why not just ask a question why not just be

a little curious my brother Jaylen Jenkins somebody commented on one of his videos say oh you're a one hit wonder this YouTube's thing not going to work out for you bro why do you have to say that the man is posting videos giving knowledge expressing himself being himself doing his own thing and people have the time out of their day to go comment that on a video why because you want to be seen and you want to be heard because you hurt you hurt but instead of working on yourself focusing on yourself you want to

project all that anguish out on other people you want to put it all on social media I get it you want to be seen you want to be heard I understand completely but we got to learn how to exist without this because this is not us this is not the way we were meant to evolve of course we're brilliant beings and we can control how much we consume which is profound but we are better than this we are supposed to be existing without these things now this is the real world and what inspired me to

make this video is my little cousin he got punished right this little dude is 7 he got a VR headset he's had every iPhone since he's been born tablets PS5 he got it all right he got it all I watched him play the VR headset one day it almost made me cry cuz he was so out of reality so out of reality right but he got punished and he came over here and you know the rules was no electronics no this no that so I went outside I was fish fixing my fishing poles and this

little dude come outside stand around look looking at the trees looking at the grass he walked up to a tree and touched it looked at the leaves and I'm like okay then he went outside and start playing in the Rocks start throwing rocks at trees I'm like huh you must really be bored but you got to come back to Nature where you belong and start to connect and he just start running around playing and that boredom look was wiped off of his face and I'm like damn I remember when I was young they couldn't keep

us from outside we got new school pants my mother don't go outside and play football I'm Reggie Bush I got grass stains on my knees just ruin my new khakis we got oxy clean and we trying to get everything out cuz we was just outside connecting with nature connecting with life living real life and that's something that people don't do anymore you don't go outside in the morning to hear that morning bird that morning bird is still there but you don't go outside you don't wake up early enough you a't really out there like that

all right and that has been lost because of these phones because of this right here something we think is our buddy something we think is our friend and it is in its own right that phone has generated me more money than any job has but money isn't everything that phone has connected me with more people than any job has any schooling I had has that's not all there is to life I've met a lot of people face to face and I value that a lot more there's some cool people I met online I have 412

19,000 subscribers shout out to y'all phone camera technology those are cool things but that's not all it is to life there's a lot more to life but like I said I think we have really lost that touch and me I'm 21 years old growing up in the time I did I grew up in a I would say a pretty perfect time right I was born in in 03 I became conscious in what 2008 2009 something around there I have some pretty early memories I think my earliest memory I was like three or four but you

know you become conscious start growing into your own person when you're around 5 six s but the life that I lived it had that esque of the the last bits of the '90s and we got to see the phone the hottest phone was the Blackberry and the phones that slid out to the side and this and this and that and Technology just progressed the PS2 was out the Xbox 36 like all those things just kept going and now kids as soon as they born they getting an iPad thrown in front of them you go to

the bathroom you can't go without your phone you in a shower scrolling on your phone you watching something you eating something you got to watch something you watching something and watching something else you got your TV on Netflix and then you scrolling on Tik Tok like it's crazy bro it's really crazy how out of touch and out of mind we are we are really out of touch we are really out of mind and is frying our brains to the point we can't even consume anything that's not easy if it's not a 3se second video we

don't want to watch it if you see a paragraph on Facebook you're not reading that you're not reading that you're not opening no book you can't bring yourself to study because your brain is cooked you can't bring yourself to do anything meaningful because your brain is cooked and I don't mean that obviously you do things meaningful you are a l which is Meaningful I'm just driving the point home I really want you to understand but we cook bro we cook but the most beautiful thing about it all is we have the power to control it

you can put your phone down I know it sucks I know it's hard and it keeps vibrating and then it gets to the point where your phone is not even on you and you still feeling vibrations right and you know this is bad for you but deep down you really don't care used to I know it's hard I know it's hard but there is more to life there is more to your experiences than these damn screens the screen is the enemy I know your eyes don't work like they used to I know your eyes be

hurting I know your brain be fried your eyes be fried even after a good night of sleep it's all that damn screen time there more to life good people there is more to life than this tick Tok Snapchat Instagram even YouTube can get a bit absurd but I appreciate y'all for watching me but if I had to give y'all any advice I hope this video resonate with you but get off this go touch grass learn the real steps and aspects of Life learn Consequence the things you say the things you do they have consequences right

you want to be seen you want to be heard cool but understand what you do and the way you act it has consequences you cannot hide behind this screen forever you can't all The Nasty crazy things you say online all the things you do because of the things you consider online those things have consequences you're not taking the time out of your day to learn certain skills and be productive when these screens go away when you grow up life still going to go on life's still going to go on things you say to people online

say that to somebody facing real life you're getting your damn wig split but on no you would never say that in person why don't have that screen hide behind but some people stupid enough to do it they act the same way they do online in person the real world slap them and they look stupid Oh I thought I could ask her is it pink in her face what come on bro is it pink my God that damn Tik Tock brain pause pause I get it some things do need pause cuz people be tripping but you

know I don't know man I don't have nothing else to say I have a lot to say but I don't I don't even want to continue to ypp orry bro I could burn your ear off this it burns my soul it burns my soul I just want people to find peace truly I fight for mine every day every day and I'm good I'm living a good life I'm at peace I love love my family I love my situation but all this junk just gets old bro there's more to life than all of this all of

it I've been so happy and content with my damn guitar I've been loving on my guitar me and my guitar been making love right as one would say when I went on my trip and I was away from home away from my family the only thing I missed outside of my family and food was my damn guitar I was longing for my guitar I wanted to get back to my guitar I wanted to go to the guitar stores while I was in California just to play guitar just to be reunited with a guitar but that

wasn't enough I wanted to build my guitars that's what's been on my mind lately that's what's been fueling damn near everything up I've been playing like 8 to damn near 12 hours a day staying up all night playing my guitar because that's what's been bringing me peace and it's a beautiful thing and I put in all this work and there's actual results that come out of it versus me scrolling 8 hours on Tik Tock I've achieved nothing maybe got a few video ideas and some cool songs huh cool beans you achieve nothing headaches that headache

that's been in the front of your head wrapping around your head get off that phone it'll go away after a few days go outside touch grass get some sunlight start eating right start eating right be conscious of what you're consuming and your life will change but like I said I'm not I'm not trying to keep the yry going I need to let y'all go I need to go myself and go play my guitar and uh I don't know man I just be trying to wake people up man it's not even my job but I don't

know man I just be trying to help as much as I can just to leave y'all with a little piece of something though man always remember to not take things personally because we live in a time we're in a place where so many people want to be seen so many people want to be heard and instead of people putting in the work to make their situations better people are going to on you people are going to hate on you people are going going to be miserable and if you don't watch it you will fall into

those same traps too blaming other people for your situation oppressing people because you feel oppressed it's is the it's endless right it's endless you've been bullied in some way you've been hated on in some way somebody have treated you badly in some way don't take it personal don't take it personal just keep bossing up in your own life and in your own right people don't know you the people that talk about you they don't know they don't know you they don't know what the hell you've been through they don't know what you're thinking they don't

know you and that's cool keep it that way the most beautiful things in life are untouched waiting to be explored some of those things are never found never understood so be lost treasure my friend in this world of but this world is Beautiful by the way don't get it twisted we're just talking about screens the world is a beautiful place but you got to get off the screen so I love you you take care of yourself and the app session is officially over so Shaman Davis is out o [Music]