> The more you can integrate the slower pace of nature and natural life, the better your mental health. Your physical presence is optimised for long days of doing fuck all, sitting in the grass, waiting for a deer to pass by.
I am 1000% on board with this perspective, yet find your prescriptive solution to be a tad askew.
To me, the early internet - especially the pre-broadband days - was very similar to "doing fuck all," waiting for something to come by my screen to engage my focus & attention. In fact, the keyboard-driven computing world was a very pure invocation of the hunter-gatherer mindset. I wrote an article on Medium about this back in 2017, called "Tyrannical Illiteracy." [0]
I have yet to conceive of a more fitting description of today's internet than that.
I am 1000% on board with this perspective, yet find your prescriptive solution to be a tad askew.
To me, the early internet - especially the pre-broadband days - was very similar to "doing fuck all," waiting for something to come by my screen to engage my focus & attention. In fact, the keyboard-driven computing world was a very pure invocation of the hunter-gatherer mindset. I wrote an article on Medium about this back in 2017, called "Tyrannical Illiteracy." [0]
I have yet to conceive of a more fitting description of today's internet than that.
[0] https://medium.com/@AndrewUnmuted/tyrannical-illiteracy-part...