We are beyond cooked. How are we gonna get people to not get addicted for life?

Switching to a dumb phone really has made me realise how much I crave it. Streets = Done

social media, passive media consumption, and the constant simplification of formats that require no effort to deliver an instant, reliable dopamine hit have ruined this society

ppl are getting dumber by the day

streets=done

stfu

i was referring to your mother when I used the terminology: "streets."

Rip to my granny man she got hit by a bazooka

Yeah, being addicted to even ktt2 sucks
Instagram and Youtube algorithms are crazy, and lol I was once on X and Threads it is like they want to drown you in Toxicity
Just straight up poison.

Thinking about it every time I blow a hooker

YT is so addicting. the algorithm got me in a vice grip pause

I struggle to Sleep bcause ii struggle to sleep bcause i crave the dopamine when I put me Phone down

i remember when phone related dopamine s*** was somewhat obscure and someone was talking about it and me thinking 'damn i wonder if more people are predisposed to that stuff, we're in big trouble if thats the case'

come to find out on von s*** is super bad no emma stone (vOn+emma stOne, emma stone was in superbad? stop playing with me)

"super bad no emma stone."

added a lil some for my fans to help figure this one out 🙏

@WRU

D'you think it's going too far to suggest that they are conditioning people to be addicts with the way that media is set-up now?

we are heading down one dark ass road

Being less on the phone and experiencing real things is a larger trend now with Gen Z which makes sense. A lot of people have realized how fried they have become.

We are the first gen that really experienced the changes in technology and got exposed to it from a young age. You could say that our generation was an experiment because prior there was no data on how social media affects our brain.

its not like people arent controlled in much more subtle and fundamental ways but maintaining everyones attention in front of whats pretty much a massive marketplace surely dont hurt the ruling ideology

if you wanna know more about media as an extension of political and economic power i would suggest a book called Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. its a difficult read but very very essential

We have been in a80,s coke/ritalin area since Covid.
Everybody wanna have ADHD/ADDso they can get Ritalin
Soon we will get to the revival of the heroin 90’s

instant access to dopamine is d***ed up

trends don’t last lmfao…they gonna be back on them devices 10x once they realize all the s*** they’ve been missing or when can’t miss events happen (Doomsday, GTA6, etc)

double whammy imo we’re just cooked bro

attention economy

founded by a nerd who wanted to f*** girls at his college cause he couldn’t meet them in person and the PayPal Mafia

yes, they have conditioned us to be addicts to devices and social media platforms which is why ad dollars make people like Speed $7M a year cause him and Mr. Beast are the kings of the attention economy that was built 2004-2010 (Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram)

they have taken those spaces, including Google, and made it s***ty. by making it s***ty, it forces you the user to want better, but since you’re so addicted to the space when it was at its best, you inevitably keep coming back hoping for better…like an addict…and they never improve it, they just make it worse and worse and by the time you leave they don’t care cause they have millions of you still active and your data/activity to feed their AI bots to make the place still seem alive

not me i cant be controlled or contained

Reading is important but I think we focus too much on it to combat capitalism, better than reading a book or watching a lecture to procrastinate through learning is to go outside and talk to people and make friends

Solidarity, mutual aid and collective improvement are all great values that only actually matter once you meet and care about other people, the problem is not just the phones it's that the over reliance on phones is a symptom of a lonely disconnected society with great technological advances

Capitalism is wired to absorb critique (shoutout Mark Fisher) so it's a hard balance to find between critique and knowing that actions speak louder than words, being wrapped up in academia is alienating to people that don't care for academia that can nevertheless get involved and experience the positive benefits of community integration :)