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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
So we’re drawn to any of the pleasurable forms of escape that are now available to us: trendy cocktails, the echo chamber of social media, binge-watching reality shows, an evening of Internet porn, potato chips and fast food, immersive video games, second-rate vampire novels .
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Society is increasingly cutting the nourishing ties that attach us, and calling it innovation. I worry about how encouraged we are to do things efficiently, i.e. alone. Ordering from Amazon harms workers, but it also deprives you of the handful of interactions you may’ve had taking the subway to a store, asking for help navigating the aisles, or as... See more
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working fr... See more