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The Dumbing Down of America

written by

Norbert Perez

compiled by Claudia Meeks

“a serious look at why America is losing the smarts game”

I enjoy watching Jay Leno on TV as he interviews people in downtown Los Angeles and posing elementary questions to them. Some of these questions, a normal grade school kid would know. Who was our first President? Whose picture is on the $100.00 dollar bill? How sad that your 'citizen on the street' is baffled and stumped by these questions. When 6-out-of-10 people get stumped by these simple questions, one might wonder where is America heading? What future do we have as a country in maintaining our Number One nation status in the world?

Another project which I was a part of involves residents from Manila and Singapore. A similar traction was applied where questions were posed to everyday, regular people, excepting of course, that we wanted to gage their knowledge about America. Surprisingly, 7-out-of-10 knew more about our country and our history, than their American counterparts. A rice farmer in the Philippines knew that George Washington was America's first President and a food vendor in Singapore knew who John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were.

What is wrong? Do we have an education system problem? Are we teaching or NOT teaching properly? Could it be in the water that we drink? Could it be in the Big Mac that we eat? What is making America DUMB?

In my professional opinion, Americans are NOT DUMB. We are not LESS SMART than the citizens of other nations. We have the finest education system in the world. We educate and train their citizens. We groom them to become professionals and leaders in their own countries.

The problem, I fear is technology or modernization and our ability to consume and absorb these real-time, instantaneous changes. Our human brain mass becomes OVERWHELMED and represent a digital OVERLOAD. Some have called it socialized DISTRACTION.

Now comes the fixing part. How do we address this problem? How do we make-up for our human shortfalls? In the digital world, one can simply ADD more memory capacity and speed. In the real world, however...choices are not that apparent. Some friends have taken the short and inexpensive route of LIMITATION. I see them going back to the basics and limiting their children's access to TV, Internet and Cell phones. Is LIMITATION the answer?

Many will reject this supposition as a future alternative. LIMITATION may be an inexpensive solution but certainly unacceptable. Most will argue that limiting our mental growth, will severely stunt our individual passion and creativity.

It is a scientific known that humans utilize a small fraction of our brain…somewhere between 10-13%. Can we improve and enhance this capacity to say…35-45%? Will our physical metabolism be able to absorb such telepathic infusion without going CRAZY? Will our minds accept this amount of infusion and still maintain our equilibrium? The answers to these questions are YES and YES. We can enhance our mental capacity but our minds require some conditioning. This is where telepathy and definition must be a catalyst.

As an avid junkie of telepathic and telekinetic paradigms, I have designed a new exercise menu to allow people of different ages to expand their mental capacities. These simple exercises will allow the subject’s mind to grow while stimulating his or her creative senses. A majority of the inventions in the 21^st century were found by accident, meaning the knowledge existed in the subconscious awaiting a legitimate trigger. “Hinatmi” is geared with that premise and designed to modulate and trigger the subconscious.

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Infusion Menu for Children

Female (ages 4 to 15)

Male (ages 4 to 20)

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Infusion Menu for Adults

Female (ages 16 to 44)

Male (ages 21 to 44)

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Infusion Menu for Seniors

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