Predatory things of the century: how dangerous “harmless” spinner

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If Pokemon Go was clearly visible to the ears of the security services, who then tested the technology free of videospiel, why in the world was released spinners, have yet to understand.

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Your child has a spinner? Dispose of him quickly, as did I!

First, a little backstory: brought the son home the Twister. Well, twists and turns, it would seem, what problems. All around twist and he is there also. I was wondering how this thing could spin what there is, minimal friction inside the bearing? Picked up, hyped, and… yeah, “stuck”. And “stuck” is so unusual that I was even hard to compare this feeling with something previously familiar. Very soon it became clear that the nature of the interaction, so to speak, of man and of the spinner are very specific and, without exaggeration, frightening.

If you have a spinner, try a simple experiment: think about something very specific, clear and interesting and the “middle thoughts” spin the spinner and look at him. Thoughts will disappear. Does not work something to think and to look at spinning the spinner. With this pause in thinking like a failure, after which it can no longer find in my head the idea, which was shot down.

But the fact of the matter is that spinner twist it is in order to look at him. Makes no sense to spin the “spinning top” and hide his arm behind his back, nobody does. That is, the use of this toy are extremely simple and straightforward: say, “zalepi” don’t think.

In fact, the purpose of which is credited to the spinners – “stress relief”, “improvement of concentration” — true. In fact, you have a good thought or bad – you from them or otherwise distracted. Of course, the “best” way to get rid of stress is to stop thinking as such. Idiots of stress in our understanding there. And Yes, the focus really is “improving”, if you can call such intense contemplation of the rotating thing.

Of course, the spinner, in fact, it is the familiar top, which that is also not a secret, could capture the attention of almost infinite: “the Spinner was painted with colored stripes svitavska in a spiral, and it was worth it to run, as they converged to one point — the bar fled and disappeared, it disappeared another, then a third. He could spend hours to looklike appear and disappear stripes, trying to figure out where they go” (Clifford D. Simak “Ring around the sun”).

Let’s try to expand the essence of the quasi-hypnotic influence of spinners on the components.

What spinner is different from any other “stress relief” is clear, “chewing gum for the hands”, etc.? The fact that in that moment, when he stirs, he starts psychologically to be perceived as something separate from you, and it already practically does not interact – only watch. Those 15-20 seconds that spinning “top”, removed from the thinking process of the surrounding reality, from life. And when the spinner stops, it immediately want to spin again – stronger, long…

Another small but important nuance: the spinner is not spinning evenly, like a fan (no “sticks” to the fan) and changing the rate of rotation is gradually slowing down. Man this attracts even more: he wants to see the changes in the dynamics of rotating blades of fidget, the exciting moment, which spinner subjectively perceived as “more fast” and after which he was “already slow”.

All comparisons of spinners with the Rubik’s cube, from pokemon, tamagochi is not correct. Rubik’s cube is a clever, challenging puzzle game “stick” which is impossible in principle, except that as a game of chess. Catching pokemon required active movements in the city, that is also was meaningful, fairly simple process. And tamagocchi about yourself so often reminded – squeaked a few times a day. Spinner was “spinning dope,” in which the “ideal” combination of minimal mental and physical effort with maximum thrust for continuous use.

And who, in fact, all this nonsense up? In Wikipedia we are told a noble story of patient academic Catherine Hettinger that invented the spinner to take the daughter with whom she could play. But: “When Hettinger first heard about the article on “Wikipedia” (in which she was mentioned as the inventor – approx.) she decided that she had written some of her friends. However, none of her friends admitted it. Soon she started calling reporters, and she gladly told them the story of how invented the rapidly growing popularity of a toy” — Hettinger invented actually this:

Хищные вещи века: Чем опасен "безобидный" спиннер

Who, where and for what purpose invented spinner, in fact, is unknown. And Hettinger quickly retroactively made screen. But we know who his first was to promote to the masses. Here is a man with an honest, kind, open face –

Хищные вещи века: Чем опасен "безобидный" спиннер

Forbes Reporter James PEFC. So, no half measures, straight from the pages of major magazine spinners flooded to take over the world. And frankly, while they are all progressing quite well. I personally see sold spinners even at the grocery market, next to the milk and meat.

If Pokemon Go was clearly visible to the ears of the security services, who then tested the technology of turning millions of fools around the world free videospiel, why in the world was released spinners, have yet to understand. But one thing is quite clear – it is in the full sense of the word “predatory things of the century”. And they devour your brain.

Grigory Ignatov

 

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