drowning in entertainment: the age of distraction 

Damn that's crazy... Why did you click read more?

Sadly we all live in late stage runaway capitalism. Gotta hustle or... die? Pretty sure it's die...... Pretty sure dying is what happens when you no more money...

The best example of this is corecore, which explains perfectly how people are just tired of todays society and tired of following the same path over and over again every day

@olisunvia Have you heard of Metaphysical Milkshake hosted by Rainn Wilson and Reza Aslan? If you haven’t I think you’ll like it.

lot's of inconsistencies and assumptions and bad faith interpretation but i agree with the general message. We simply have to adapt. Reclaim the internet from exploitative corporations and educate the masses on media literacy.

can one really be okay with boredom tho?... i really try my hardest to stay away from the source of distractions but i just can not

@@aylinarkan199 last summer one day all i did was stare at a little rock i found in the garden, just sitting were with my thoughts, humming songs and remembering stuff. Just sit and do nothing is something you have to learn these days, but older generations still have this built-in

@@deur its harder to do it when internet is always in reach and you’re locked up in a place but when outside i think it just feels different not to anything and just be

Cant agree more, its way harder than you have stable internet connection. Its like breathing under water, you have to make a choice (unlike in this analogy, conscious) and rise your head

To the people who grew up in chaos, peace is easily mistaken for boredom

100% We're hard wired to feel our best through deep and meaningful social connection

sadly that well is drying up nowadays

interesting that some would switch your statement around maybe that's the diff between intro/extrovert

I'm absolutely fine without social interactions. But even though I say that, my lonely ass will come back to bite me in the future.

@@imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881 you’re still socializing through the internet. Thats just more comfortable for you because you dont feel confident in your own skin. Not an insult, many people feel this way especially nowadays

i just don’t want to miss out

​@@samarakirkkkdon't worry there are so many different apps and sites to use to know what's going on in the world

@@samarakirkkkexactly it’s so difficult, a main way of communication with my friends when i’m not with them is by sending tiktoks and starting a discussion about them, and without that i’d feel incredibly left out.

​@samarakirkkk trust me you're not missing out anything

Good luck someone please reply in this thread to remind me to start reading again

Same😢

ME RN😭😭😭

Damn..

True!!

This is literally me… it’s so unfortunate

What is a cursed world without its blessing existence? What is perfect without the imperfect? Exacto.

Maybe it's just a boring video ??

​@@Nthdegree2 dumb & wrong

@@TerenceGrier boring video?? how entertaining is it supposed to be?! this is exactly what she’s talking about in this video lmao, we should be able to sit through and listen to what she has to say, but people struggle with it bcs of the constant need to feel stimulated/hit with enough dopamine

@@sappychloe hard disagree. If a video is boring/ not entertaining / not worth my time. Why should anyone feel obligated to watch it ? Can a video be both entertaining and informational? Yes! This is the hallmark for both great RU-vidrs and great professors.

fr me too, I love finding other persons who can talk with me for hours about different topics about our daily lives and philosophy cuz we're both intently focused on the conversation. I think it's honestly the best form of being able to learn from others and have those meaningful moments that brings people closer. It's kind of a shame that our current media forms and content are causing us to value entertainment over important things that are actually relevant to our lives, and that talking about things that may feel boring to others somehow makes it not worthy of discussion.

Boooooring

@@simonshura9144 🤡

sorry got no time to read all of this, but you wrote something about weed so take my like.

How long did it took for you

What you have said is true, but sadly those real poeple you mentioned are not many left

@@nemeshh3446 Agreed.

The last part doesn't sit right by me, read as dehumanizing and othering desu.

It probably stems from us not viewing people as people anymore but rather as numbers and identities. We are reduced to this because the number of likes and comments on a video, for example, is made to be more relevant than the content of one of those many comments.

No one is trying to connect you. They’re seeking to monetize discourse and engagement with the least amount of context possible. The more context they provide, the more an audience can critically analyze it for truth. The posters of this “information” don’t care about truth or enlightenment. Only engagement.

yea and you suddenly look and feel like the odd one out even though all you want to do is talk to the people around you yet they're too busy on their phones

​@@crazymadstriker766 I've been surprised how receptive most people are to a smile and a hello, maybe even a compliment. It's unexpected, but nice to have a genuine interaction.

@@saintallison Maybe it just depends on the person, I tried with some of the people sitting next to me in one of my classes, maybe 1 sometimes talks about film when I start a convo but I tried with the other 2 and it's just small talk then back to phone again

@@saintallison It's easy to have genuine interactions with friends but strangers is much more difficult

Haha I use to see people staring at their phone and feel sorry for them that they were missing out on so much around them...

Same here; facedbook instagram and reddit were super easy to drop, but I find some RU-vid content so enriching life-changing. It also prevents me from being totally unable to converse with the zoomers in my life. I wonder what could replace it?

Same

Yeah, youtube is so hard to shake though... I always find myself wanting to watch just one more video

yeah it is very difficult to completely ban it from my internet or devices

imo it's more powerful to teach yourself self control and personally limit yourself to social media then to delete it. i think social media at times is very helpful and educating

Not all of us, i like being an adult, my childhood was hard and stressful

@@nerida3347and being an adult isn’t?? 😭

​@@jennuhcide59All about your mindset. To me being an adult has brought plenty of responsibility but I enjoy the freedom it brings too and it doesn't really feel like I'm more stressed than in childhood.

@@EneTheGene i agree

As a 1997 baby I just wish we could have now, 2024, just without all the short form content. Or at least that we could have an option to turn off the reels functionality on instagram.

yes me too :)

Amazing!

I think this is really true! I remember watching a TikTok (lol) about how constantly listening to music is basically a distraction to our minds and boredom. I’ve always listened to music on my way to school/work, but now I try to turn it off sometimes and let my mind wander. It makes me feel like I’m giving my own brain time to speak instead of constantly giving it art/media to process.

@@whathefuckisthisoh my god I literally had an enlightenment just now lmaooo (I listen to music almost 24/7 [85k mins on Spotify🫠])

Music helps me think and concentrate, whiçh is why I listen to music in the shower

Honestly. My best thoughts tend to come during long lonely drives - coincidentally the only time I cannot physically access my phone to scroll - and especially when I turn off the music/news to let my brain ramble.

Definitely. I liked this vid as well (with a few exceptions), and your summary is fantastic ^_^

Being bored in an universe this weird is unacceptable ------- exurb1a

What do y’all think is the scenario with such videos; in context with copyright issues if most of the ideas are reflections of the Neil postman content she’s consumed? 🤔 Sure she’s adding this day and age’s relevancy but is that enough to give her the credit of doing these things like eye opening?

@@chandrikadaswani3696all ideas are accumulations of others’ previous ideas, no? theres no problem with adapting someone elses ideas slightly if its still helping people. its also hard to say that she only got this information from 1 specific person or creator when so many talk about this. i understand your point but im still grateful for this presentation of accumulated information!

same!! ive been trying to stay off social media more because of video essays like these

I prefer to read, draw and just take aimless walks.

and it's people falling for those distractions. i will always blame the people

It is. That's why everyone is depressed. There's very little fulfillment in the modern Western world. People living in the 3rd world are much happier than we are, and they live a life that has very little distraction.

​@@nicoledoubleyou I can't really agree with this part about the third world living happier, I can't speak from every third world country but coming from one I can say we tend to seek even more distraction in the midst of harder times having to battle even more political corruption, higher crime rates and lack of resources. From a latin american perspective we tend to find the entertainment in misery because what else are you gonna do to keep yourself ahead? In one way or another social media affects all of us with different processes.

​@@seelko01 fax

@@seelko01 what she said

This wont help every app but on my laptop I use the expiation called unhook for RU-vid you can choose what to get rid of but it makes it available to get rid of recommendations shorts or comments etc it’s very good :)

the choice to not use them is still yours

Delete em dawg

@@noahwarren9462it is not that easy, usually I am the first to say that we ALWAYS have the choice, but here you are fighting agains’t psychologist, people that study humans reactions that WANT you to become addicted. It releases dopamine in your system constantly. I WANT to stop, I am taking actions but again, it is not that easy. And deleting those apps would have repercussion on my social life, love life, school life…

@@iCookCrystalMeth I know, I wanted to choose moderation but these companies are giving me no choice now.

the hunger games movies are still good but i agree you dont really GET the message the hunger games is trying to get across in the movie like you do in the books. In the books katniss becomes a vessel for the reader to put themselves in her shoes to experience what she’s experiencing, while in the movies we are watching her from a 3rd person view.

I agree. And for a lack of better phrasing, I find it strange that a majority of people imply in their wording that "just one thing" being created is often seen as powerless. I mean sometimes it really feels that way but it's all time and place, huh?

Media has been using very short soundbites for a long time. Theres a Carl sagan quote about it. Vine was the precursor to Tiktok.

Vine did it first and it was a reaction to short form clips on youtube. It was an evolution of several stages that ended up causing this.

I believe we all can amuse ourselves 100x better than any tiktok video or podcast. But it's just easier and faster to outsource self-amusement to internet and it eventually becomes a habit/addiction trying to reach that almoast impossible goal by listening others self-amusing themselves and laughing for you. Those things require you to become silent, passive, emotioneless consumer, instead feeling genuine pleasure, random waves of happiness and aliveness yourself. I have laughed uncontrollably for 9gag content, podcasts and comedy shows maybe 4 times in my life, but with inner self-dialogue its almoast effortless. We all have the creativity and imagination for it. There are some funny stuff worth of nose pfff exhale, but maybe I am here just for the small dose of dopamine of hearing new things and endless flow of meaningless information.

y'all acting like TikTok invented shortform content when it was originally a replacement for Vine, and the predecessor for that was youtube making 10 minute videos be the most optimal for content creation to dollar value produced allllll the way back even before vine was poppin'

We are holding on to the part of our younger selves that use to be able to love life. Human brains crave familiarity. They will always choose a familiar pain over a new scarier one. So we tend to run backwards rather than forward when we dont know what else to do

Same, I have to remind myself everytime I get nostalgic for that stuff

She undercut herself with this very poor argument here. Gen Z is not the first generation to experience nostalgia, nor will it be the last. It has nothing to do with media and attention span, it's a natural reaction to aging and the passage of time. Entirely irrelevant to the topic being discussed.

^^ I agree, I guess to younger viewers “nostalgia” is anytime after 2016 … but to anyone like me (31) nostalgic stuff is way back in the 90s … and even though I was born in 1992… nostalgic movies etc are from the 80s… it actually goes to show how even the “Nostalgic” stuff is an even shorter time ago, akin to their attention spans. I mean, when she said 2013, I was like what? That’s not long enough ago at all to be nostalgic about. Weird times we live in.

I assume that when it comes to implicit social rules, it’s often treated as a burden to the ‘fun theatre’ of talking to mention your problems, and that it’s best to keep shut about it because the point of talking with friends and family is to have fun. So everyone is reluctant to mention it to not burden anyone else. This was my perspective, but I can’t say how many people feel the same way. I feel fortunate that a handful of people in my life have been more open to tugging at the difficulties with sincere dialogue, but it’s much more common for me to find people I don’t know well enough to go beyond the pure entertainment/drama layer of dialogue which is not to say anything about those people, just that dialogue is so uncertain sometimes that false fronts feel like my only option based on certain assumptions and insecurities I have about those implicit rules of talking to others.

yess sociology is insane, we need more people educated on history and the effects technology has had on society, knowledge will lead to change 🤞 gen z here

It's so important to highlight the social differences in the pre-brick-phone landline 1998 era where stimulation level was so low. The Smartphone has become a new drug, with drug-like withdrawals, and we mistreat its symptoms with other drugs, mistaking a lot of its symptoms to be a pathological mental illness, ADHD, Autism, Bipolar, etc. etc. I firmly believe we have an enormously upside-down relationship between expression and impression. A Negative impression is made on us - then we come home and vent it outwardly as an expression, this breathe-in breath-out cycle keeps the balance of good mental and emotional health. Today we constantly bombed with negative information at all times, and the brain was not designed to take on an emotional load that large, which is now playing into feelings of "Overwhelm' and "Overstimulation" leading to emotional exhaustion and eventually depression in large majorities of the population.@@hannahclah5701

Same

same here I rather get assaaulted by Zeus than use that app in a life time

​@@elvirak8846hAHAHHAH That's an interesting way to say it but I agree lmao

⁠@@elvirak8846assaulted by Zeus 😂😂😂😂😂

FYI: You can turn off YT shorts with Revanced

riighttt.

AGREED

Hard for me to focus along with 24 hours cycle

I’ve been struggling with this so much recently

So relatable

lol when she said that I immediately thought "what about ai?"

This was exactly what I was thinking

lol

Age of white noise indeed

Recently i got an E-ink phone. You better believe im downloading books & manga, podcasts & music. Im done being manipulated by the data.

This is actually an amazing idea thanks for sharing!

Another way to look at this is your adhd doesn’t even allow you to watch this video back to back.

@@wombat7961 what's an e-ink phone?

i think it’s so crazy to read someone’s deepest thoughts, worries, personal anxieties like I don’t understand that other people have lives that experience the same things as i do. i feel kinda out of touch with the world atm and just people in general. what i wanted to comment on was that i know you posted this comment 3 weeks ago, and you’re probably feeling better now, but your comment really got to me!! i’ve been feeling this way for years, feeling as though theres somethings wrong with me, like i’m not in control and that i need to do something in order to feel happy and alive again. granted it was for a different reason, but your comment really resonated with younger me. i want you to know that it’s not your fault you ended up in this cycle and that you’re still on a journey to finding happiness and fulfilment in life. your life isn’t ruined because some of your life was taken up by social media’s trap. and you’re also not alone in this ❤️ so many people are in your (and mine too tbh lol) situation. something i’ve been think about lately is how so many people put blame and alienate others as if they aren’t humans as well. we’re all human beings with intricate and complex lives that’re experiencing the same things as one another. you are most definitely not alone. i forget this sometimes and i need to remind myself a lot. please don’t be scared ❤️ remember there’re billions of people out there going through the same situation, it’s all part of the journey. your life is still to be lead by you!! you can still make changes in your life :) if you feel as though you haven’t been living lately, why don’t you try and have a bit of a device detox, go outside, talk to your family and friends, start a new hobby (which involves a physical activity perhaps, like drawing or cooking or writing). life is full of so many opportunities and fun and life and happiness, it pains me to read that you’re going though the unfortunate pain that i think a lot of people in this age are going through atm. idk if this even helped and there’s a part of me that wanted to write this for myself aswell to reinforce it in my own head lol, but the world isn’t a dystopia. life is what you make it :)

I am writing this only for you please read okay , I will be happy if you I will be somehow able to help you a little bit. Okay ,same thing was doing with me , now I am free from social media and the other unwanted stuff. I am going to write this in 3 para - first (problem ) Second (solution ) Third (motivation, procrastination ,overthinking) See ,if you find insta and other social media time waste and eating your life , you have to deactivate and uninstall it. It doesn't matter what others will think or your acc will get destroy and you have to make a new one . the most important is your control in life ,feeling happiness in doing what you enjoy. Also if you tell yourself you will use just 20mins on social media ,its a lie to yourself and you again start using for 4-5 hours and feel guilty after that. So your enemy is the mind which forces you to use social media and other addictive stuff. But if you remove the social media from your life completely by doing something then your mind cant force you to use coz you cant use. So, the solution . first of all permanently delete or temporary delete your social media and uninstall it . Then install all the important apps that you need and which are useful to you. Then apply app lock on playstore . The main part starts now , write a random password on a copy don't use letters ,use symbols like @#₹%&?!:, and don't memorize the password ,send your password to a friend and told him to save it and tear the page completely and throw it in the dustbin or burn it . After some days you will realise that you can live without insta. I am preparing for JEE so i use this technique ,I am not completely free and can't control my mind 100% but I won against social media and other useless app and I am trying my best to become a better version of me . Motivation you have it inside ,you care and feel guilt ,want to be a better person , you are worried about your life means you have motivation but one part of our mind is the devil which embrace sadness ,want motivation ,procrastinate, it doesn't want us to grow and become a loser in life . Overthinking is a serious problem , when you will be free from social media ,make sure you don't overthink , just chill and do the think you love.

I obviously dont know you in person so take my advice with a grain of salt. I think you should get off of social media. I did that and though it was very hard at first, I eventually got used to it & started to retrain myself into enjoying long form content again & living in the moment. It also made me feel like I had ALLOT more free time. 4 hours on tiktok felt like 20 minutes to me. That way you will not only find it easier to be focused on your goals & dreams (that you mentioned in your comment) but you will also feel like you have more time to just...do stuff. Not only that but its also better for you mentally. You will be more alone with your thoughts, get to know yourself better etc. It also teaches you to face your problems instead of just scroll your feelings away when you get too upset. It takes time to gain hobbies & you will feel very bored at first. It will also take some self control. It does, however pay off in the long run. This is all just my 2 cents though. There is no obligation for you to take it.

delete social medias mate

a lamb has woken up. now you may live, hopefully a little more freely

Yeah, as in we need to open things for discussion - with everyone. There are so many perspectives we miss, if we choose one path.

We need to normalize fact checking

awkward moments are actually make me feel good, reminds me that we just human not a robot. we think we need to talk and express perfectly like siri does but honestly i want the complete opposite of that, i think we all do.

I'm not even old, but I keep telling people the internet has done more bad than good and that life was better without it, it is ruining attention spans, peoples brains, and making people crazy, there's so many terrible takes that are spreading now that wouldn't even be thought of in the past, and a lot of the time people encourage the craziness, and then people think I'm some sort of boomer we are not built for any of this, and it's all so new still, it will only get worse as time goes on, a solution must be done quick

let me add one more thing, corporations control the internet and they are intentionally getting people addicted to milk them, it will keep going and going until it's not possible to get people any more addicted

@@matthewvelasquez5630what a great way to look at it, I will definitely have this mindset going forward

this is so true, I've been fighting with instagram for so long, but I don't want to delete it because I feel like I'll miss out connecting with my distant friends and other people that i kinda know. Ps: I have 3 friends that I actually care abt, the rest I don't even talk to, and it's not really important to know if they got in a different school, their relationship status, and random details abt their life. Not to mention why do I feel like I NEED to post things abt my life, even though i know that the people who see it, don't even care about me or how i look or my decisions. This video made me realize i should for sure delete instagram lol

This!...

Yeah, and believe it or not, entertainment is DRAINING. you may not notice it, but you're probably more tired after watching a youtube video then if yu had actually spent that time in your own mental space.

@@ahmedhaaqilrifky3531 i agree 100%. these days i've been trying to be more mindful of how i spent my energy, trying to moderate it

@@ahmedhaaqilrifky3531 Very well said. Sometimes after a day of RU-vid I feel so tired like I've done a day of work, and I haven't actually done anything. But a day of constructive work can actually feel rejuvenating!

exactly. sometimes i'll be sitting in a public place and look around and it will feel like the people around me are living in a completely different world. the lack of people present with their surroundings is very very sad. something has to change soon, feels like we're getting to a point where things are just so stagnant

i agree, those videos annoy me so much 😭

Those videos are honestly dystopic

As a teenager, I think I can speak on this a bit. While I don’t use tiktok, Instagram, twitter, etcetera (except for RU-vid and Snapchat for texting, and occasionally Reddit), most of my friends do and they can still think like normal people. Many people are more attracted to short form content but can easily understand long form things that interest them. Although my smarter friends tend to use less social media and seem less likely to jump to conclusions are say things without evidence.

Those videos truly feel like your brain is rotting away. I sincerely don't know how some people are fine with it. When I had TikTok, whenever those videos would pop up, I had to put my hand over the ''bonus'' footage just to salvage a bit of my dignity, something I seldom had anyway since I was on TikTok. Needless to say, shit like that was a wake up call to stop consuming any type of short form content, because I always feel like shit when doing it.

I don't see the issue with that at all. When I play video games on my pc, i have youtube in the background playing. or music playing. This is the same thing those tiktok videos try to emulate and this is valid for kids who don't have $3k gaming pcs

Glad I’m not the only one… thinking about what might happen in the future worries me…

shut up and get on ur phone you loser

@@alvinaac365I’ve got a few playlists you might “enjoy”, one is called Future, another is called Society, another called Phycology, another Neuroscience, another one on Depression.

It’s all good! Have a kid and pass this on to them.

​@@DG4444everrrrHave a kid with the right one .

Don’t stress keep it pushing, good thing that your educating yourself

this is so true, you described the feeling of mass relatability really well

Now this is epic! Literally me fr fr

nostalgia content ive always seen as brainwashing mood downers. I used to consume a lot of that content before and it only made my mental health worse before I realized how bad it was to be taking in such harmful content

oh gosh i needed this reminder so badly. i have been feeling rather sad at certain posts that are irrelevant to me all because i am no experiencing that life. it makes me feel jealous of those around me who have those aspects in their life, even if i do not want them. for example, my university colleagues have created a very fun and adventurous friend group together and they behave in the "fun" ways people on tik tok and movies behave. Mind you, i do not like their jokes, or their lifestyle, but i am made to believe that i do due to what i often consume online. it is a real issue

@@sin3358 that simply hints that you aren't enjoying your own life. It's a jealousy that comes from watching others have something you want and don't have, even if the way they get those feelings doesn't appeal to you. Our world is sick too death with this problem, and you're in the extreme minority if you don't feel this at some point.

why is this from 1 day ago

@@zthemkfkit6891 bot

​@@zthemkfkit6891 maybe a patreon benefit?

@@zthemkfkit6891 it was probably a patreon video

Same. YT and IG, that's all I have and it's where I get 99% of my news

kudos!

Well done. Light or no social media is best

​@@ananya100 the it 😅 knife 🗡️🗡️ Niki i

I don't have tiktok and I don't use instagram, What I need to stop is youtube shorts 😅

I'm not even old, but I keep telling people the internet has done more bad than good and that life was better without it, it is ruining attention spans, peoples brains, and making people crazy, there's so many terrible takes that are spreading now that wouldn't even be thought of in the past, and a lot of the time people encourage the craziness, and then people think I'm some sort of boomer we are not built for any of this, and it's all so new still, it will only get worse as time goes on, a solution must be done quick

Bro was spitting fax 4 centuries before it is needed

bs

He died so young

Define problem

Man certainly doesnt cease to exist just because life is meaningless. Are you assuming that the basis for man, or his conciousness's survival stems from meaning. If so then that assumption is worth elaborating. I dont think life itself must have meaning, or even value as the basis. Distracting yourself from the inherent meaninglessness of life to prevent a suicidal ending, is not the only mode of existence isnt it, since another - accepting life as lacking an inherent meaning and embrace it - might be a better alternative mindset

Love the questions you ask at the end, makes me think too

Ahhh the wonderful results of late stage capitalism /s

Why is he working full time x3 while you get part time x1

@@mrtheluckybucket Pretty intrusive question to ask, you don’t know their situation.

3 full time jobs ? wouldn't 8 hours per working day constitute a full time job conventionally ? so 3*8=24 , he is working 24hrs a day?

But... you're not doing literally nothing. You said it yourself, you're thinking. If you want to give it a more concrete name, tell them you're meditating. Many of humanity's greatest minds did it, so why shouldn't you?

​@@kernfelnow go tell that to the average human being😂 they'll still look at you weird

Oh I think about this exact thing too… like my family would literally worry if I just decided to take a break and stare at the ceiling… and it would feel very weird too because Im not used to that either… but like the fact that we think like this today is so unnatural

I found I used to do a lot more of "nothing" just thinking or sitting outside watching the clouds pass by a lot. Slowly over time I think I forced myself out of doing that because of other people's comments. Particularly the question "so what did you do today?" caused this for me because I often felt like I had little to say if I had spent a lot of that day just thinking and felt put down by people for not having anything interesting to tell them or ashamed I wasn't productive enough. This is something I've only really figured out in the past few months and have started questioning myself about why I feel the need to do certain things. Is it to fill time for someone else's approval, so I don't feel awkward when they ask what I've done or do I genuinely want to do this thing for myself? I totally agree with you that doing nothing has become synonomus with lesiure activities not true nothingness.

i like doing nothing, im usually listening to music but whenever i turn it off i jus curl up and sit there

true even for news how can we know what really matters or not ? how can we keep ourselves updated on important things without being disturbed by useless information?

How much is your life built around it? Uninstalling?

@@ooooooooooo9656 sometimes it manifests in sacrificing important commitments to make more time for the Internet

A first step I did to "unplug" was remove the Tumblr app (or any social media you suspect you're having unhealthy attachments to) from my phone so I can only use the website when I'm on my computer, which is a desktop, so I can't just go everywhere with constant content idly beamed at me all the time. I assumed at first I would be missing out on pretty much everything but literally nothing changed that dramatically, and I started reading more books since I wasn't constantly distracted by the abyss of infinite-scroll. As a result I'm less likely to pull out my phone in the middle of a social situation to check notifications and likes and whatever, too... It's small but it's been helpful. I'd also recommend getting into "slower" forms of internet communication/expression like creating a personal site on Neocities or joining a forum or something so you're not constantly inundated with notifications and can just focus on yourself and what you enjoy. The most important thing is to make the internet your own- not that of the corporations that run the big social medias.

Age of white noise indeed

very true!

even watching the ad just felt so awkward

@@sinqobilebandile6558 OLIVIAL THE SELLOUT😹😹

Funnily enough, my car shut off the moment she began the patreon readout and I began reading your comment 😂

And then the ads after the video ends, it both takes your mind off and makes you try to quickly move to the next thing so you don't have to sit through a bs mobile game..

That's why I put my phone in my pocket

If it was absolute bliss, why are you back on RU-vid then? 😂

@@katielowen I usually watch a few videos or listen to podcasts before going to sleep, I'm not pass that yet lol 🙇 still, bliss!

@@hanac5586 ah ok! I feel you on that for sure!😂

thank you for sharing your beautiful experience 🙏🏼

@@katielowen it's unrealistic to cut out social media completely. taking care of yourself and being in nature without any screens is important but it's not bad to be on your electronics as long as you're being mindful of how much time you're actually spending on them.

What's the series drop it.

@@ryanvaughn3121 it was just masamune-kuns revenge, nothing special, but I liked it, and read it all in one go 😅

i think what you saying is something correlated on what they call "flow state" in psychology

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@@IGuessVince I remember watching the anime for that years ago, it's a fun watch. Reminds me that there'll be a sequel coming up this year.

yeah. me too. sometimes I still wonder to myself if it helps to take all this information in long form. am I just going to let it slip away when I close this tab? or has the deeper look at history and outlined information given me something to mentally chew on? is there a seed planted in us now that will grow and encourage us to find and act on solutions, even on the individual scale?

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@@taraswick3586 i worry the same

@@taraswick3586 That's why I don't like to overload when it comes to video essays, and I honestly don't think i'd watch various channels about it

Hey @meriiky, you've put into words something I have been feeling for a long time. Feeling 'rooted' in the world, remembering things... I fill like my life is passing by and I don't remember anything. Thank you.

@@ahmaquindi this is how I exactly feel and reasons why I been so nostalgic.

There’s no reason to think you should feel the same as an adult as you did as a kid. It’s a universal experience that time seems to speed up as you age. Every year is more and more insignificant against your body of experience. Your interests and concerns grow to the point where every individual one, and every individual attempt to address one, becomes less salient. But what you’re going through sounds a little different based off limited information. You shouldn’t forget your morning on the same day, if you’re being literal about that. Many people benefit from attempts to be more mindful and address things like brain fog and just taking care of health in general. Your brain is your mind afterall.

wow are you me

@@jmass4207 This is true but the feeling of being more attached to the world has gone away. It almost feels like were more in other peoples worlds online learning all this irrelevant information whilst not staying in our own world. Being more rooted probably comes from spending all your time actually living your own life and not feeding your brain the lives of others that you won't remember in 2 days time.

I‘m proud of you for self-reflecting like this! Wish more people were capable of doing that 🫠

I agree with you that we are becoming mindless, reckless, people who want entertainment with constant scrolling and that really fills our minds with basically nothing. Self-reflection seems boring and some people really avoid being alone and acknowledge their actions, thoughts and feelings. I belong to a land where meditation (Dhyana) came from and I struggle with sitting quietly and focusing my mind. But i believe once we realize what we are doing, we can take a step to better ourselves. Good luck with you!

Was the phone related to you accidentally offending this person? what happened

Nah, you made a good point, hope you Aren't stressing out about what happened with that person, have a good day :)❤

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tho if we look at their videos close enough, we can find the same distracting crap. I miss mr Freeman, who was just a cartoon, but didnt insert any external images, videos etc...

@@user-ou7lb3ne3g they acknowledge their place in this distracting world at least. There’s an admirability in calling out the system while admitting fault within it to a certain degree which played well for me. Everyone has room to grow and I’m glad this video was made to speak to a feeling I’m sure millions have in the modern day.

@@user-ou7lb3ne3g aaannnddd there's the nostalgia we all know and love 🥰

exactly, people always act like we HAVE to be productive ALL the time. No, that's not how humans work. If you're taking a break from social media, go out just touching grass and or just sit in your porch doing or thinking nothing. Just exist sometimes. If you have a healthy relationship with the internet, then go watch your favourite youtuber. You don't have to be constantly be productive.

@@based4indian2commie0slut69 It's not about being PRODUCTIVE all the time. It's over-consumption of short form content that's the issue, there are other ways to let loose outside of the internet like you said.

I think the problem is that mindlessly consuming is not resting: it's a tiring activity. Spend the whole day watching TV, or RU-vid, or TikToks, and your mind won't be rested: it will have slowly grown tired. It's so important to be able to disengage from those and learn to let that "jelly brain" state take over: going for a walk, staring at the wall, getting bored and letting the mind truly rest, recovering for a while with no new interesting input to process.

You are correct, but the problem is we live in an addicted society with enabling nodes literally everywhere. It would be unethical to tell an alcoholic that we all need a drink from time to time. People have to have healthy relationships with themselves first to conquer addiction. People who are addicted to screens should not use video games and other addictive electronics for their jelly Brain moments in my opinion

​@@mrknarf4438 i mean, what constitutes your brain tiering out? If im lost in thought or day dreaming im still doing something, im still activly engaged which can be tiering, no?

what books on those subjects are your favorite?

I would recommend to supplement philosophy and sociology with ethnographies by cultural anthropologists. Gives a different perspective.

I LOVE SOCIOLOGY 🤩

Waste of time... Should have studied science instead...

​@@ZESTIESTBESTIESLAY Sociology doesn't explain anything....

ooooooooo now i need to read it

There’s so many books id love to read but (and I’m embarrassed to call it this) mere words can’t hold my attention. It’s not that I’m not interested, or don’t like the book. I just can’t sit and read in one sitting. But I also have adhd so I have trouble staying focused on anything😭😭🙏

You've just taught me that that's how you spell segue.

How did you learn? (For a friend)

@@fjebdbdjzndjd5026 first I got a lamp next to my bed that I could turn on to read at bedtime, then I left my phone on my desk so it couldn't distract me from reading :) made sure to find some books I was interested in, too! Reading some novels rn 👍 Good luck fellow reader

@@lucilleballs2291 thank you 😊

@@fjebdbdjzndjd5026 you're welcome!! 💕

Same. I just time my reading sessions to 20 to 30 mins a day.

you should take your time to write down about this kinda topics, maybe one day you could also make youtube videos. (: we need more people talking about this problems in our society

did you not learn that in school? sad

@@sorenjunkers3834did you not have anything better to say? Get a life.

*you're. Just like in "I'm" for "I am" , the abbreviation stands for "you are". "Your" is a possessive pronoun, like "my/mine".

while the internet can give advice, you should be the one to make the decisions. hell, you should even take this with a grain of salt...

Look up sneako meets kid fans it’s bad

Dear sir/ma'am, I don't know you, but I'm a 14 year old kid who didn't have ANY internet access until I was 12. Everything was good then- I had motivation, top of my school, and, well, functioned like you would expect a kid to. As soon as I fell down the internet rabbit hole everything kinda went to shit. Requesting you to not give your child any internet exposure until they're at least 15 or so.

Hey. I’m a kid myself, 13 years of age. I’ve been introduced to technology as little as 4 years old, I wasn’t addicted much but Corona really hit me hard and I started to slack in school. With this upcoming generation it’s impossible to avoid technology, but please, limit it as much as you can.

tbh i have to say the same thing as two other people said - the internet isn't just dangerous because of strangers and mysterious files but digesting that much global information and literature and everything here as a child affects you, in some strange way. it's like you grow up faster and learn quicker but you don't really go back down to pace after that.

I could not agree more. (Also dont forget to use Sponsorblock). RU-vid thinks that Adblock = Piracy, when in reality, RU-vid is just pirating people's time, especially with their double ads, triple ads, and 10 ads. You could argue about RU-vid premium, but this is an internetwide issue and not just something in a platform These internet ads are honestly too stimulating and dangerous. I do not understand why people are okay with it. Why are they okay with getting random garbage shoved in their face in the middle of a serious video? Its honestly nice having commercials in entertainment channels instead of having ads getting shoved in peoples faces. These commercials act like white space in printed media. I hope people can realize just how impractical ads really are, and how much irreputable damage they cause.

I know man, the wild west internet of 1998-2010 was the greatest. After that, everything went corporate, and has went violently downhill from there.

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@@faridwiser5441 big W!

miss your contents man.

What does reached a higher frequency mean? Frequency of what?

​@@gorochu4287 it means his voice sounds like a hamster ( bs speaker here )

higher frequency?

Frequency?, huh?, you didnt reach any higher frequency man you just got aware about things of life and thats it

@KC Very strange. Statistics show younger people are buying more books than genXers and boomers. Are you all possibly buying but not reading them?

​@@crisvis8905 unfortunately this is probably more to trends and video hype making people online (especially tiktok) convining gen z'rs to but things like Colleen hoover books

@@crisvis8905 I think this might be happening because there's this subconscious reward in the brain that you get from buying a book, whether you read it or not. I think It's the same reason people buy videogames and take years to get to playing them. You get a hit of dopamine just imagining the fun you will have (eventually) with your game. Humans like to collect things, and everyone looks smarter with a filled bookshelf 🤣

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​@@crisvis8905 I'ma be real with you, it's probably just tiktokers buying books to use as backgrounds in their bookshelf (that they never read) to seem interesting

Go ahead with Postman, if you are unsure get a sample of Postman in the pdf. Bullshit and the art of crap detecting! :)

read manufacturing consent by noam chomsky!

@@sabrinanaser9327 Great book, read it a decade ago! Chomsky, Pilger, Klein, Postman etc.. Just read, read read!

as someone who read this in school seven years ago, it was still a slap in the face!

Take time to digest what you read. Actually sit and ponder, be it mid chapter or even mid sentance. It feels like a chore at first, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Now, a good question is whether that is because it is a skill you have to train or a process of de habituating another, say like the lack of attention span from modern media. With the mind less cluttered by useless rabble, not only do we have room to think, but we actually want to!

Honestly, start small! A page a day, then two pages and do on!

It’s an addiction

If you really want to give it a shot, slowly start removing your apps, one by one. Even the ones you use daily. It's hard at first and you'll want to redownload them since it's so simple, but if you don't and actually give it some time, you'll find you are never looking at your phone anymore as you have no reason to and it starts to feel really good on all of the senses.

Do you have PTSD or neurodivergency? I have the same issue but I assumed mine was due to the complex PTSD that I developed during the course of an abusive relationship that went on for over a decade, and then I had to live alone for the first time after never living alone before in my life. So being here in silence was really difficult, especially since I lost my career, I lost my entire family, and I lost almost all of my friends. Three of my best friends died.