Wow! People using phones won't want me to list all the general observations I've made. This is because most are conditioned to texting short, often abbreviated text speak. Also because of the whole twitter type communication standard nowadays. What used to be great forum communication practices now results in endless scrolling on such small screens. Fewer and fewer people have the ability to view long blocks of text in one view.

Generally, most people are conditioned to control. Not just government control, any control. Many people are so inclined to believe what they are told that they make poor decisions based on someone else's recommendations.
Furthermore, its not just the recent generation of adults. This has been happening for at least 4 full generations, meaning it started with your great grandparents.
However, withing the last two generations it has ramped up a lot.
This is because of television and color printing.

Speaking from experience, I grew up with television. Black & white, 3 channels and on all the time (till the stations went off the air). While the TV was on, people were transfixed by it. Hypnotized into a way of thinking about life things by people who had no idea how you led your life.
That backlit box told you what to buy, what to wear, how to raise your children, how to think about life's challenges and what make you a good citizen.
While the mode of influence has changed over the years it still does the same thing. Only now, it's influence saturates more of your life because many have access to carry around video. You are bombarded with advertisements constantly.

When you go into the grocery store to buy food, the packaging is designed to make you want to buy that item. Stores are designed to make the most of your inability to make rational decisions. Impulse sales are a major revenue strategy at many places. Just look at the shelves and racks surrounding you when you stand in line to check out or pay for your gas. People buy that stuff at those elevated prices because they are conditioned to do so.

You watch a show on TV and not only are they trying to persuade you to buy drugs because you may have the condition they describe, they want you to sue someone and take their money. You need to buy this cereal because its good for you or your family, this toilet paper will make your feel clean, use this, buy that, how can you be a good citizen if you don't.

Then you have the actual show which portrays scenarios which are very unlikely and happens to people with unrealistic living conditions. Ever watch a home improvement show or a car repair show. Everything is clean, everything comes apart and goes together easily, every project turns into a beautiful masterpiece.

Watch some documentaries or a mystery case files show. More often than not the give you more questions than answers. the UFO, thee Ghost, the Demon, the strange phenomenon always happens to someone you don't know or in a place you will never be.

What use is a sale on widgets if you don't need to buy widgets? But, people will go buy those widgets because they are on sale and its a really good price for them.
How many times have you bought something inspired by an advertisement only to find it stuffed in a closet or a drawer or the shed? Sometimes you can hold that item up a year later and ask yourself "what the hell was I thinking when I bought this" and you can't answer.

Many people are conditioned to want it all their way, right now, right here.

That 15 minutes of fame everybody used to think they deserve has now changed to 30 seconds of fame because most commercials on TV last 30 seconds.

The NEWS is no longer the NEWS, it is opinion sprinkled with some NEWS.

People used to discuss the NEWS at work or while socializing. Now they discuss "He Said/She Said".

People used to carry around their soap box but technology has redesigned the soap box to a folding adjustable pedestal that fits in one's pocket.

Social networking has removed the mystery in life.

Ever notice how grumpy people get when they can't watch TV or be on the internet?

Even suggesting someone shut off their channel service for a year is fighting words.

Subliminal learning, Many people never even realize they are seeing a bombardment of advertising but it registers in the brain and conditions the behavior.

Generally speaking, when someone is deluded, they don't know they are deluded.

Stress is 99.99% self-inflicted.

Expectations obscure (cloud) reality.

"Gonads are useful for their purpose but they are no substitute for brains" ~ Paul Harvey

Money and power prevents our species from achieving our capacity.

"Dihydrogen Monoxide" aka hydric acid, hydroxic acid, hydroxyl acid, hydrohydroxic acid, and hydroxilic acid is water (H20). According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.
So, people are mostly acidic.

No matter how you try to cover it up, you can never unsay or undo anything.

No matter how hard you might try, you can never change the past.

Every experience (good & bad) you have ever had, from conception, made you the person you are right now.

We make changes in the present to affect the future based on the past.

The present only exists in the moment but the past lasts a lifetime and the future never exists.

Its your life, why would you try to live up to someone else's expectations.
Who did you grant authority to control your life?
Why would you even try to control another's life?

If you like someone, do you like them because they are who they are or because they are who you expect them to be?

I'm glad I didn't read that lot on a mob. fone. Ha Ha !

Not if I am the one being served. Then it is only 1 serving. Especially if it is butter pecan.