And it sticks. I mean, focus your attention in that little world of meanings and symbols long enough and you’ll tend to get stuck there.

But reality is infinitely larger than that little world. So to stay there, in that little world, to have your perspective altered like that all the time, is a bit unhealthy and insane.

But this is considered normal. Encouraged even.

  • hauiA
    2·
    2 days ago

    I get your point but you’re taking the symptom for the disease.

    Like every addiction (which this depicts imo), the system around it is the problem. The vast majority of people uses their devices massively to escape the bleak capitalfascist reality for some time.

    We also have dismantled nearly all well working alternative systems under the disguise of “freedumb”.

    You can trace back nearly every problem currently to that source. We need to get rid of it. Then the screen addiction goes too.

    • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      Whether you enter this state of “mental screen fixation” through personal preference or pressure from outside forces makes no difference in the state arrived at, surely.