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Hard to say how it plays out in the long term. Do we end up with a society that's 95% addicts and 5% people who understand the danger and resist it? Or does it play out like smoking, where the addiction spreads wildly at first, then shrinks?
The good news is, if we establish a general antibody against things you want that don't make you happy, it will work against many different smokings simultaneously. The bad news is that it will need to.
Been saying for a long time... there's a difference between fun and happiness. One infinitely more complex than the other
A lot of ancient philosophies can be seen as inoculating you against your own desires.
It's true, resisting one's immediate desires is arguably the basis of civilization. What's new now is that they're targeted so precisely.
Food is the biggest drug problem in the US.
It’s likely meditation is currently the most effective antibody combined with organizations like Center for Humane Tech that are addressing this problem. Percentage of meditators in the US tripled to 14.2% from 2012 - 2017 https://nccih.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/NHIS2017-Adult-Survey …
The importance of focusing on your feelings was a key insight I got from reading “Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking” - his method is to continue to do “the thing you want” but pay attention to how it makes you feel. Quitting is “easy” once you’re aware of the impact
(I’m not a smoker, but I got the book because I suspected I was addicted to Facebook. I was and I used his method to quit.)
Happiness is wanting what you get and pleasure is getting what you want. Calibrating our brain for the former is darn hard.
This is already going on with our addiction to thinking. Which is why many cultures independently developed a practice similar to what we call mindfulness Interrupting the stream of unconsciousness thinking and identifying w our thoughts I suspect this is y Twttr is such a mess
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