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Look at phone checking as a cause, instead of a symptom. Your life other than your phone encourages checking it. Long commute to work? Plenty of situations yo

Look at phone checking as a cause, instead of a symptom. Your life other than your phone encourages checking it. Long commute to work? Plenty of situations you'd rather not be in? Limited freedom to choose how you spend your time? Yes? Then being in your phone is a coping mechanism. The solution is, there is no simple solution - you need to have financial freedom to not be forced into situations you'd rather not be in. Other than that, if you're under 30, then a phone is simply a free tool for gathering new experiences and it's perfectly normal to check it every 5 minutes - you're supposed to be curious. It'll work itself out - sooner or later checking instagram and facebook simply gets old. Twitter opinions get repetitive and boring. Even HackerNews becomes predictable and boring. It's like anything else - sooner or later you figure out what works for you and you focus more on that, then the things that weren't serving you will largely fall away on their own, but it may take a decade or two to get there. Just don't have children until you're sure, everything else you can figure out isn't working for you and let it go :)

cryptica 6y ago
>> Look at phone checking as a cause, instead of a symptom. So true. It's interesting that the most upvoted comments on HN are those which treat this as a cause. "Leave your phone in another room", "Turn it off", "Throw it away"... These ideas are themselves the product of the global lobotomy. They are characterized by an inability to see that things are much more complex than they appear on the surface. Of course, superficial ideas are more likely to be popular. This is because the vast majority of people are system 1 'instinctive' thinkers. The idea that the underlying cause might be "people have insufficient control over their own lives" is not on the globalist agenda. This argument is far too sophisticated and abstract for most people to grasp. People will not even want to acknowledge it to themselves. IMO, it's precisely the lack of control over our lives (at the hands of the education system, governments and corporations) which is forcing us to accept a passive consumer role. But very few people really want to be a consumer, they just don't see an alternative.

cryptica 6y ago

>> Look at phone checking as a cause, instead of a symptom. So true. It's interesting that the most upvoted comments on HN are those which treat this as a cause. "Leave your phone in another room", "Turn it off", "Throw it away"... These ideas are themselves the product of the global lobotomy. They are characterized by an inability to see that things are much more complex than they appear on the surface. Of course, superficial ideas are more likely to be popular. This is because the vast majority of people are system 1 'instinctive' thinkers. The idea that the underlying cause might be "people have insufficient control over their own lives" is not on the globalist agenda. This argument is far too sophisticated and abstract for most people to grasp. People will not even want to acknowledge it to themselves. IMO, it's precisely the lack of control over our lives (at the hands of the education system, governments and corporations) which is forcing us to accept a passive consumer role. But very few people really want to be a consumer, they just don't see an alternative.