Your attention please
Everything on TikTok is just kind of mediocre, because nobody watches anything for very long, so there’s no reason to make anything very good. And increasingly, this endless, relentless feed of bland mediocrity is eating every other type of cultural consumption in America.
A few cultural thoughts
Being bored is not just a pause in the dopamine drip, but the void into which thought, desire, and distraction rush to take shape. It is not merely the opposite of stimulation— it is the state from which all stimulation is an escape. There is boredom, and from it, everything else grows.
Bored
We’ve grown so intolerant of delay that we can’t sit through a full microwave countdown before intervening— preferring to eat it lukewarm than wait for zero.
Bored
From Bored
Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)
youtu.beYour mind is programmable. If you’re not programming it, then someone else will program it for you
disorganized notes on a low information diet – whygodwhy
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