>> 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 caus

>> 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.