"Makes us feel best", "Gets noticed over the clutter", "[Gives] us the illusion of social status"
Those are the lures that each niche uses, sure, but the result is that we lose time. The result is the problem, not the drug packaging or delivery mechanism.
If anything, that makes it more disturbing: whatever our psychological needs, there's electronic joy out there competing for them.
Not sure how it will play out. I'm an optimist, but after I wrote this it's kind of drug me down. I'm sure we'll muddle through somehow as a species. We always do.
Those are the lures that each niche uses, sure, but the result is that we lose time. The result is the problem, not the drug packaging or delivery mechanism.
If anything, that makes it more disturbing: whatever our psychological needs, there's electronic joy out there competing for them.
Not sure how it will play out. I'm an optimist, but after I wrote this it's kind of drug me down. I'm sure we'll muddle through somehow as a species. We always do.