1 month ago
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I can’t take how obvious and corrupt it is. How we all now have a form of adhd. How we have several screens in our face at once, pushing products, sex, and food. It’s an inescapable trap that takes consistent awareness not to fall into. I back realizing this. I’ve spent the past 2 weeks binge watching shows and scrolling, taking breaks only to masturbate, and wondering why my problems seem so much more grave than they actually are.
It’s because I’ve lost my sense of humanity. It’s because we’re not meant to just consume entertainment and work. People think that it’s fine as long as you’re sexy and have money. But the damage done is like the tides. They keep rolling in with a seductive and irresistible comfort.
Before you know it, you let meal prepping go and you buy some trash food. You wash down the shame with a few beers and several episodes of a show you’ll forget. Instead of being social, you feed into other people’s social lives to glean the humanity you should be having. Then you slave away the next day in a society where everyone must be hyper-productive. Not people, units, with unattainable KPIs, and metrics with the aim of refining the machines were trained to be.
This to me isn’t life. I want to take 4mo off and hike the Appalachian trail. I want to get lost in another country, and not update instagram. I’d like to get a flip phone just for emergencies, and see how people actually live for once.
This trap scares me. It’s my biggest foe. I do things to fend it off but it always comes back. A cycle of obsessive work and incubator like comfort. We’re all slowly becoming zombies.
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