Because the intention of disruption is dogshit and the result has got us catatonic. This feeling and effect of constant disruption is talked about beautifully in the book "present shock" because the horrifying effect is constant dissonance.
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We know this. We know how paralyzing the news is now when 9 horrible stories can hit as once and we barely have space to process them. We KNOW it's bad.
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So the simplest question remains: why are we still choosing all this? We know the tech bros ain't gonna change. But for us, it's a part humanity's monstrous appetite for convenience, along with the inconvenience of doing the work to stop it. But then there's the deeper reason...
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Anyone who goes to take a poop without their phone these days will suddenly realize the shocking reality of not being engaged and just having to sit and think.
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Sure we sometimes had magazines, but it's a simple action we have had to do so many times before with the stark change now staring us in the face. It is the terror of being alone with our own thoughts.
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I do not evoke this from a place of judgement. It is a place I know far too fucking well. My thoughts can cycle through and haunt me. We are ALL facing this. But we all know that the bigger price comes in constantly running away.
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Which brings the metaphor full circle: we choose disruption because the alternative is simply being with pain. And we hope the next disruption is a joyful antidote to that pain.
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And it all coils into an infinitely closing loop, moving faster and faster, until a singular state of paralysis, ever eating it up, ever consuming the product.
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I don't have a solution... for I am perpetually disrupted.
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Probably just die at the end. I don't think there's any solution to the idea we must always think and that we are hard wired to fear and speculation. The distractions are there for the same reason art always was - a dance before the grave rather than a march. Chill out.
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i worry you are missing the point
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No I get it, just that the part about being alone with our thoughts bring upsetting. If you feel that way I'm just saying that you can't "solve" that permanently and perpetually. I think that it's understandable we salve that, but I get the insidious nature of social media
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