Jonathan Blow

I have a sense that "tech addiction" is a misshapen concept not because it's pointing toward some inwarranted concern, but because it medicalizes one node in the system of requirements & allowables in an increasingly unhealthy systemhttps://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1151685083520278533 …

We've already seen this with ADHD, a diagnosis that's allocated to some people with limitations that genuinely render them nonfunctional, many people who struggle, & many more who are pathologically(?) unable to stare at spreadsheets all day at work without amphetamines

Perhaps — similarily to the way that most (if not all) humans are simply not suited to staring at spreadsheets for 4+ hours per day — most humans cannot tolerate a social hierarchy that permits them no upward moves based on mastery or valor because no true "small ponds" remain

At the same time that their every capacity is compared to, say, that of a remote worker in an arbitrarily low-GDP locale who can be hired for pennies on the dollar, an upcoming raid is inching ever closer AND HEALERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED

These are still largely urban concerns that haven't percolated to e.g. less dense regions of the U.S. But we still see "tech addiction" there, so what gives? I think it tells us that whatever the hierarchy/status-disrupting tech is, it's not some SF subculture issue

FWIW, my intuition is that to the extent that there's a harmful gaming/social media node dominating, it's actually downwind of the dating apps & the culture that's been forming around them for more than a decade

I think the current younger generations are the first to grow up in this postmodernized “smart people all believe there is no meaning” environment...

People my age had some exposure to that, but there was still enough remnants of a culture around that believed in things. Outside of churches today (which “smart people aren’t too smart for”), what portions of society actually honestly believe in anything?