> You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working from home driven by Adde

> You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working from home driven by Adderall you got via Zoom from a pill-mill doctor, you order dinner through an app (so that you don’t have to talk to an actual person on the phone), masturbate to online porn, watch several dozen videos on YouTube, none of which you’ll remember even three days later, then take two Xanax to put yourself to sleep. That’s progress now, the steady accumulation of various tools to avoid other human beings, leaving people free to consume #content that is by design totally, existentially disposable, throw-away culture that asks nothing of us and which we don’t remember because neither creator nor audience wants to invest enough for remembering to make sense. Maybe if you want to be engaged with other people you should understand a little bit of why they take certain medications, or consume certain media, which you don’t particularly find helpful or appealing for yourself. Personally my meditation helps me to have and maintain capacity for better relationships with the people I want in my life. But the fact that I take medications has served as an unexpected but valuable honeypot for identifying less healthy human relationships too. It’s not that I don’t want to have real, meaningful relationships with people. It’s that explaining for the umpteenth time that my meditation helps me and isn’t whatever boogeyman you’ve imagined makes my relationship with you less healthy and meaningful. The more that reinforces the stereotype in your internal feedback loop, the more that makes me want to spend my time with people who are actually interested in my real experience. By all means, enjoy presence in whatever aspect of reality you find enriching. Ima be over here doing the same, but away from people judging me for the things that help me function in and enjoy my own life.