trouble

things I struggle with

Walter Benjamin writes that “the distracted mass absorbs the work of art.”

everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance

After years stuck in the spin-cycle of dopamine, you have to expect the first few weeks to feel like withdrawal. Addictions are always crucifying to quit.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

Most of a good life is simply refusing to do what is bad.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

Time to throw the gizmo away lol

The transformative moments in my life only came when the pain of staying the same finally became greater than the pain of changing.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

This was a strong motivator before but so far, it’s not been heloing. Is my pain of staying the same not exceeding not?

Suffer until you get sick of your suffering.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

The goal isn’t entertainment. The goal isn’t even distraction. The goal is addiction4.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

I’m highly aware of my play into their goals but I can’t help but succumb each time?

To create an anxiety that only promises relief by purchase. It’s a system that reduces the nobility of man to a cog in the capitalist machine, a unit of utility, something to sell to.

Tommy Dixon • How to end your extremely online era

those are the qualities screens reward, we lose the capacity to think in paragraphs, to think hard about the same thing for half an hour, to practice any kind of sustained attention.