One such trauma, called ‘Information Stress,’ resulted from “obsessive absorption” with computers, television or other modern-day hobbies, noting that recent generations “have been molded, not by rich real-life experiences [but] information imparted electronically via television, film, computers and other advances in communication technologies” that convey “narrow, shallow and violent” images and messages, lead to crises of identity (at best) and actual violence (at worst) and render people mere “holograms of the society they inhabit.” While the most common IDs led to “ongoing altered states
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