desensitization in media
how we start perceiving life thru social media
desensitization in media
how media changes perspective
The Aesthetic Trap: How Social Media Changed Our Homes
youtube.comcreating a digital garden to end my doomscrolling
youtu.beReflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreWe increasingly try to fit all our experience into a digital spreadsheet, and written words can be logged, searched, counted, isolated, and edited or deleted far more easily than anything else. They allow us to construct a simplified parallel reality alongside the unbearably ineffable one.
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
Peter Thorpe argued in Why Literature Is Bad for You that the negative effects of reading outweigh the positive: “If we become too involved in the beautiful imitation, we can begin to lose touch with the real thing.”
Kit Wilson • Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or ev... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
Short span attention
critical thinking skills going down the drain with each chatgpt novel summary request i fear
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