I think many addiction treatment programs looks specifically at the negative impacts of your "zoning out" though. Zoning out is just a brainstate, probably as old as (human) time. But if it's causing your self esteem to drop, to miss deadlines, etc, then -those- are specifically the problem. I think it's no surpise that as we continue to remove nature from our environment, we turn increasingly to digital media to get these pseudo-meditative experiences, and we should not entirely blame ourselves for this dystopian state of affairs.
