I DON’T KNOW who started the trend of “dancing nurse” videos. Unless you’ve lived in a cave for the past year, you’ve surely seen them.

Was it a marketing team from TikTok? I had never even heard of TikTok before this. The social media platform gained tons of publicity from the phenomenon. Was it a psychological warfare department in government or business? Was this another ritual humiliation invented by powerful occultists? Or was this all just from the beginning a spontaneous grassroots phenomenon that showed what a decadent society we have become?

I don’t know, but I’m sure of one thing. Videos promoted as widely and heavily on social media as these have been serve a purpose for the perverts in charge. Of that, I have no doubt.

Some people obviously find these cute-sy nurses with their peppy routines performed in the ugly, dumpy scrubs that make medical workers look like Maoist serfs to be wonderful and heart-warming. Many people, however, don’t find them wonderful at all. That’s why I say the phenomenon was encouraged for the express purpose of stoking outrage as well as providing entertainment. They seem intended to distract; to entertain and to annoy; to draw attention and create intense division. A segment of the public became steaming mad that nurses were dancing during a supposed pandemic. These feelings are similar to the outrage people feel when they hear or read of library drag queens, a real, though exaggerated phenomenon, intensely disturbing, that also seems intended to get ordinary people extremely upset. Emotion — whether it be fear or outrage — is a tool of control. People who are agitated often don’t get much done and end up feeling defeated.

That’s why I don’t post or comment on these incredibly idiotic videos which underscore the near-total lack of dignity of the nursing profession in feminist America. Obviously there are many real dancing nurses out there and they prove, among other things, that there is no ongoing medical catastrophe.

But I could care less what they do.

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V.M. writes:

I have just read your comments on the Dancing Nurses phenomenon, and I share your dismay and irritation on the subject.

However, your article also touched on a sub-topic that has become very interesting to me; the problem of TikTok.

I am a school teacher, and have been since 2005. I am now in my sixteenth year of teaching Bible and World History to students in 7th through 12th grades in a small Christian school in Dixie. I have had a front row seat for observing the effects of cell phones on adolescents (and I’m sure you already knew that the effects have been profound).

However, TikTok seems to be especially engineered to damage teenagers. In fact, it seems to me that social media titans such as Snap Chat and Instagram create problems incidentally, but TikTok represents a deliberate attack on the minds of children. I have just spoken to my son, who attends my school and was in fact a student of mine (this year) in my Bible 1 class.

Here are some specifics regarding TikTok:

I asked my son, “How long is the longest possible TikTok video?” His answer; “They tell me that it’s possible to make a three minute TikTok, but the longest I’ve ever seen was two minutes thirty eight seconds. Some TikToks are as short as three seconds, but the vast majority are from seven seconds to thirty seconds, with the most common length being about fifteen seconds.”

I’m sure you can anticipate the disastrous consequences these details will have on the human attention span. I would love to say that my school has a zero tolerance policy for cell phone use on school grounds. But we do allow them. In fact, the cell phone has become such a necessity for teens that the only way I can get them to behave is to promise them access to their phones once we are done with our work for the period. TikTok videos are a main staple for the kids, and they will all admit to spending hours (when they are home) watching video after video. And remember; the average length of the videos is approximately 25 seconds! One tragic result of this has been that the kids literally can’t listen to me for more than two minutes at a time. In fact, I can be talking about something that is inherently interesting (for instance, the squalid conditions produced in British slums during the Industrial Revolution), and within one minute the kids will visibly cock their heads to one side and essentially tune out. They are not sleeping, but they are not exactly awake, either. This phenomenon has always been observable in some of my students, but in the past year and a half it has become universal.

I don’t know what to do about it. With this inability to concentrate upon the spoken word has come a corresponding inability to read a textbook for any more than two minutes at a time. And those who cannot master the linear-logic skill of reading will never be able to discern the difference between truth and lies, honesty and baloney, or sincerity versus cant.

I guess I would like to blame the Chi coms for all this, but who am I kidding? If the Chinese had not invented TikTok somebody else would have.

Laura writes:

Thanks for describing your experience.

I can imagine how frustrating that must be for teachers. But then giving cell phones to teenagers is just wrong, for all kinds of reasons.

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