day 17 of no porn, no TV, no movies, and no video games and i can feel my long-atrophied imagination coming back to life
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maybe we did something weird to ourselves when we decided to cope with life by constantly stuffing our eyeballs with the outputs of other people's imaginations
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if streaming services function as an acceptable substitute for the unacceptable contents of one's own imagination, perhaps twitter similarly functions as an acceptable substitute for the unacceptable contents of one's own thoughts
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i was looking at the wiki page of some famous author or other and the story of their life involved being inspired by a *single* book they read and were utterly consumed by
and i wonder if we've made it too difficult to be consumed by a single work of art in this way
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idk if you've had the experience of trying to binge a lot of porn at once and finding a strong tolerance effect - each individual slice of porn affects you that much less
suspect the same is likely true with "media" generally
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hmm now might be a good time to finally read Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
ratical.org/ratville/AoS/4
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Still Thinking About WALL-E
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several people have asked why not include social media - i do think it's important to include social media in a general "dopamine detox" and i do notice a dazing effect from spending too long on twitter that i don't like. this is more of a "video detox" twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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oh yeah. I like to rewatch my favourite films 12 times so I can love them enough. on that note, I reread The Diamond Age six months after first reading it.
now I'm reminded of 's delightful adoration for that novel; if anyone's consumed by a single book, she is.
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For me that movie was Inherent Vice. Part of what made me want to rewatch was the fact that ot was so confusing and dreamy
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I’ve been consumed by single works of art in my life and became obsessed and learned everything I could from them
I don’t know the answer to your question. I think it’s more than our society making things a certain way. I’ve never detoxed, I actually consume tons of information
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if i had to choose a single book to live by it would be The Alchemist
altho im not sure i have the courage Santiago has, at least rn
nice. plenty of space inside the sandworms
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