Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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