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This article feels like a window into the mind of someone who drank too deeply of being perpetually online, and now feels the pendulum swing the other way. Lik
by interroboink 2y ago
This article feels like a window into the mind of someone who drank too deeply of being perpetually online, and now feels the pendulum swing the other way.
Like the verbal equivalent of that one time I drank far too much Gin and my stomach finally said "no" all over the bathroom floor (missed the toilet — oops).
I'm glad to never have gone down that particular path. Stuck with my flip phone for ages, etc.
But for people who did, just know that there's room for moderation. There is plenty of space between "all day online" and "the internet is over."
I like this quote from "Mutant Message Down Under":
My suggestion is that you taste the message, savor what is right for you,
and spit out the rest; after all, that is the law of the universe.
You don't have to swallow the internet whole (or let it swallow you).
- 650 2y ago>for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. - Nietzsche Because these apps are designed to be targeted and specific with some of the brightest minds in the world working on them, it's easy to overdose and become addicted. t. recovering addict
- interroboink 2y agoAgreed with you there (: I'm not sure where the healing process begins, on the larger scale. Parents with their children, I suppose? I grew up without TV; probably that twisted my mind a bit, so I recoil from that stuff somewhat automatically. It's something I wish upon others.
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- pxoe 2y agomaybe it could help those doomer "internet is over!" types to even try to look at internet in a positive way - or at least it'd give us a tell through what they'd come up with, if anything at all