@quinnsreads Install yomu or some ebook reader on your phone and put the icon where your doomscrolling app is and start by reading instead of scrolling
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
@colossus_cap@BowTiedLobster The Iranians overthrew their previous and less strict government for the current one. Some reading of general Iranian history indicates they will always identify as the outcasts of the globe and are willing to take infinitely more pain than Americans who cry when gas is $4
@calvinfroedge reading people like Lasch, Postman, McLuhan showed me guys like these and others have been loudly trying to ring the bell on this stuff far longer than I originally thought. It applies to all forms of mass media, the shit is far too powerful.
@maiab I'm convinced all the shoe sizes from ages 0-4 are randomly assigned values, I have found size 6 that dont fit my 2yo and size 3 that were far too big