Tragically true.

Agreed, and I think in doing so we’re also kind of gradually killing creativity on a societal scale in a systemic way. It’s like a slow suffocation. You can see how this changes the way people write, the way contemporary authors set scenes, recount details, make observations, etc. Difficult t...

What a shame, doesn't? I leave for a walk twice a week without my cell phone, exactly to be able to appreciate the surroundings.

Diligent research has also gone out the window. A two second Google search often times becomes ones base of thought as well as their cornerstone of perspective. Pretty abysmal.

I fixed that with walking… it’s so hard to state at a phone when at a brisk walk, but I do some of my best thinking then.

Use your tools wisely or your tools will use you!!

We can also relearn to use them intelligently, like switching to nostr which doesn't ragebait similarly to Twitter. We got this.

Yes, keep your kids away from them for as long as you can.

True, I call it the “Wonder Killer”.

So true.

I'm not sure if we eliminated boredom or augmented it. I think the word boredom is prob uttered more times per capita today than ever before. Cos being constantly connected means that you get used to constant stimulation and hence resilience to boredom decreases.

Trust me I’m still bored AF

Another word for it is insanity

If I'm looking at my phone then I'm bored.

Writing with pen and paper forces slow and deliberate thought

Alongside real scocialisation, not this crappy FB / X thing. Talking about Human to Human interaction.

Boredom > anxiety

My earbuds were out of charge. So I worked out without phone/entertainment this morning. I need more of that.

100%. I switched to a flip/dumb phone for a few months at the beginning of this year and I felt like a completely different person. I would actually daydream and come up with ideas again. It ended up being too obstructive and I unfortunatey switched back. Since then though, I've tried a couple...

Not sure about the first thing though

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Every now and then we need to stare at a tree or bird, contemplate the smell of grass and hear the wind. That’s the best way to detox ourselves imo.

Have we eliminated boredom or simply changed what it looks like?

"There is no longer respite for reflecting or choosing or adapting oneself, or for acting or wishing or pulling oneself together. The rule of life is: No sooner said than done. Life has become a racecourse... a succession of objective events which drag us along and lead us astray without anything af...

Indeed, how many of the world-changing ideas were thought of during boredom-induced day-dreams??!! How will we ever make progress now??

And elevated genital cancer.

For some maybe… without technology, I wouldn’t be able to extend my contemplations very far. We have to choose how to use technology, or it will use us & siphon all our attention away. Delete apps sometimes. Lock in. Cycle back and forth. This is the way.. Escape from boredom with an intellect...

the pendulum will swing

This one sure aged well