If the world ends tomorrow, it will be because some distracted person launched nuclear weapons, or unleashed an extinction level event bio-toxin because they were distracted by the snarky comments under their last Facebook post.
I keep thinking about this more and more, as I see the effects of most people being online 24/7 and the way this situation is used to manipulate them into buying shit they don’t need, responding to trolls on social media, and doing things that are actually self-destructive. Even worse is the residual effect of anxiety, unease, and stress they feel subconsciously, because they are responding to constant stimuli.
The most impactful prosperity advice I can give you is to plug your phone in to recharge overnight in a different room than the one you sleep in. And schedule some specific “no devices” time every week. The increase in your mental clarity, peace, and harmony will astonish you.
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L. M. Sacasas in the Convivial Society:
Back in 2019, Colin Horgan published an essay discussing the role of convenience in shaping our techno-social order. “It’s convenience, and the way convenience is currently created by tech companies and accepted by most of us,” Horgan argued, “that is key to why we’ve ended up living in a world we all chose, but that nobody seems to want.” While I’m inclined to qualify the “we all chose”
element of this claim, particularly under pandemic conditions, the line nonetheless aptly captures what I suspect may be a familiar feeling, the feeling, that is, that we are somehow working at cross-purposes against ourselves. It’s the feeling that our efforts, however well-intentioned or feverish, are not only inadequate but somehow self-defeating. Or, alternatively, it’s the lack of satisfaction lampooned in the popular comedic bit from a few years ago about how “everything is amazing but
nobody is happy.”
