You say “live and let live” but a life spent terminally online is no life at all.
I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible.
It was well understood that tv is addictive and a life spent in front of the tv is no life at all.
But now we have the internet. Far more addictive than tv. People spend hours staring at the interactive tv that is the smartphone.
People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction. Everyone instinctively knows a life watching tv is a waste but people are deluded into thinking that a life on social media matters.
In other words it’s all a drug. Makes you feel good but leads you to waste your life. Nobody says live and let live to a drug addict.
“It’s not a hobby for them, it’s their whole personality”
Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.
Nah. The older I get the more I realize we're all making this up as we go along and there is no round two. That means different things to different people. Some people think typing on computers making bullshit B2B apps is no way to live. Some people think it is. It takes all kinds to run this big humanity experiment and it's a good thing that people value different things. We need people to have different and even bad ideas for any of this to work.
I couldn't care less how others spend their time, I'm just glad that everyone has their niche.
> People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction.
Most people accomplish nothing. You go playing basketball with guys after work, you will accomplish nothing with it. You sit and read books, you are accomplishing nothing. You tend to your flowers at home and you are not actually accomplishing all that much.
Insisting on accomplishment all the time just leads to mental health problems.
> Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.
Why? Of course it is personality. It is not like the rest of us all had super special valuable personalities either. We just exist.
I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible.
It was well understood that tv is addictive and a life spent in front of the tv is no life at all.
But now we have the internet. Far more addictive than tv. People spend hours staring at the interactive tv that is the smartphone.
People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction. Everyone instinctively knows a life watching tv is a waste but people are deluded into thinking that a life on social media matters.
In other words it’s all a drug. Makes you feel good but leads you to waste your life. Nobody says live and let live to a drug addict.
“It’s not a hobby for them, it’s their whole personality”
Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.