the ~internet~
we’re all rotting and i need a breath of fresh air
the ~internet~
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
Thanks to the internet and our insatiably consumerist culture, it is finally possible to distract yourself for every waking minute of your life and barely even notice you’re doing it. When you mix all colors of paint together, you get black. Everything quickly becomes nothing.
Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out
objects tied to purpose - a kitchen for cooking, a bathroom for washing, a living room for reading & socialising - but the internet isn’t an object tied to a purpose; it’s everywhere, and you can’t really turn it off and walk away from it, which is why it’s so hard to disconnect. When the internet was limited to the family computer and you had to
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I Dumb-i-fied my iPhone and Got My Life Back (iPod Week 3)
youtube.comThe digital age is transforming not just what we know, but how we think. He argues that the internet has trained us to expect instant answers, that we don’t sit with ideas or think deeply anymore.
thedigitalmeadow.substack.com • Why Do We Crave Useless Knowledge?
Modern freedom is having the ability to disconnect