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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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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I’m not sure if it’s adjacent to your mindset or not, but David Foster Wallace’s essay on TV has left some indelible marks in my mind:
jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
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disclaimer: It’s not as concise nor precise as some of his other works
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What proof do you have that your imagination has reversed atrophy? Did you suddenly write a sonnet? 🤔
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not particularly interested in proving anything but spontaneous fantasies about my life
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we should, like, get AI that hijacks our webcam, notices when our attention is collapsed, and dials down the saturation of our screens correspondingly
the user experience must be degraded until the user's experience improves
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link in the tweet!
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