Things were, changing. It's hard to say. I went on a drug-addled binge from 2019-2020 to deal with, like, 6 griefs, the (temporary) loss of a relationship (or at least having to read the signals that they only want sex from me not love?) and trying to move on (which has become incredibly hard because people seem more worth it than drugs now).
I got to a point where I accepted and can live with all the losses I've been through. At the very least I'm glad none of them are suffering any longer.
Many of them went out in incredibly painful ways or from incredibly painful/dehumanizing diseases. I think the only one of them that maybe found the same acceptance/inner peace in life was a fam member, and my cat. The others were afflicted w/ addiction, struggles and never got to work past them. I would have tried harder to help if I was in a better place myself then and I have to live w/ that for... yeah the rest of my life, and I came to peace with that too.
Facebook is an information sponge that sells all your info. Even if I liked it (never did) I would go out of my way to get off that site. OH but don't let ME tell you what to do, I spent quite some time posting edgy political memes in CEP when I got home.
To be fair I did stop playing video games for about 2 weeks.
getting back to EARTH/NATURE is so helpful and is so much more awesome than screens/technology (which is kind of a lie because I am addicted to/love technology, have been on computers daily/near-daily since age 2) but the INSTANT I get back out to nature I don't miss technology and want to go exploring.
so I guess it's not really a lie?
philosophically everything may already be part of the technological singularity. And another way to view it is everything that makes up technology and natural stuff are identical (sub-particles) and what not. Mindfulness is important for sure. You can use screens but don't obsess/waste time on them I guess? If that's the thing you're working on. Some people have the "preoccupied thoughts" regarding it. Considering how work-centric a mobile phone device can be I almost don't blame people.
Watch this if you will.
whoops wrong youtube it's a 5 part series let me find the right clip
Or I can tell you the specific part you should watch of the whole clip... let me re-watch. It's fascinating.
A compatible way you might improve your screen time usage; do more high-minded things with it (like reading a novel PDF instead of watching a movie, or make unique digital art instead of just looking at others, etc.) hmmm.
THIS. I have studied psychology. Certain psychology majors are going to really get off on being paid to make technology more user friendly, seamless and addictive/reinforcing. You absolutely absolutely should be aware of this. This is specifically what I would excel at (but don't do because I don't think creating new non-drug addictions in society is a worthwhile endeavor at the moment). Every time I play a video game for instance I have one, to hundreds of ideas as playing (depending on the time of year, what I'm doing in the game) to make it more
profitable. Not necessarily "addictive/time consuming" but the more $ you put into something the more compelled you will be to be time-consumed by it, for the average person...
8 minutes 40 seconds into it... BF Skinner... this is the part you must watch.
until 9 minutes 41 seconds, literally 1 minute of your time will open your eyes on "technology addiction".
"The randomness is very important" = imagine how random/bizarre every DJT tweet is from the middle of the night to start everyone's days/dialogues. Hence why I wish people/news would ban reporting on his tweets, etc.
11:25 and on...
"we now have over 2 billion skinner boxes in people's pockets" ... "We are running the largest experiment, like psychological experiment, that the world has ever seen, by orders of magnitude, right?"
if cell phone addiction rates hit high enough it would make drug addiction #'s seem like, nothing. But if
everyone's doing it no one can really realize their problematic behavior, it's reinforced by everyone around you, encouraged even. he goes onto say 1 in 4 people have a cell phone; this is most analogous to cigarette smoking rates though I believe they should be lower than 25%; and a global average of USA for cell phone ownership will be
very high and nowhere near 25.
What might be interesting is to measure cig addiction:cell phone
ratios in countries around the world, map it w/ a color gradient.
~ 12 minutes the lady goes "Because YOU have FREE WILL" in that voice like it's a joke determinism freaks such as myself remind people who have free will..
yeah I get like that sarcastic when I reinforce the "You have FREE WILL" in real life too. You can tell the type of psychologists who excel/get employed this way but have enough of a soul to at least sit down and detail a bit about the technology addiction engineering they're doing definitely don't believe in free will like me. Lol. :censored:
"You have FREE WILL, you are a SOVEREIGN CONSUMER" = same people then go to make the technology
as addictive as possible to reduce others' free will. Or "suspend it", I guess, I don't know, if you believe in free will. I was a lot happier when I believed in it.
"A return to Skinner in the 80-90's would have been unheard of or even creepy, someone designing your behavior" yup.
"Behavior designer" sounds like a future job for me, alright.
