Getting off of the internet is hard enough. Paying attention to our own intelligence is yet another step on top of that, one that becomes hard when the pressures of everyday life are taken into account.
We barely get enough free time to think for ourselves and on top of that we're addicted to the substitution of our own thoughts by whatever is happening on the internet.
We need someone to bomb the corporate servers.
Not a bad idea. I thought that during COVID when everyone had time to think and get more sleep that a Workers Revolution would start brewing. In actuality, the opposite happened. The Trance cult crew and people became more polarized into the Q-Anon/Blue-Anon camps. Now every one is back to work an focused on producing and making more and more money to buy more and more crap they don't need. The two cults are to busy calling each other Nazis and Communists that there's no movement to come together to bomb the fight the common enemy, much less bomb it.
There was a post on here the other day about how people just kind of stopped talking about internet addiction. It said that maybe we're all just to used to everyone being on it all of the time.
I think COVID served to that purpose because we were already addicted and were manipulated so that we didn't really interact with anyone else in a true (necessarily face to face) way. Loneliness is necesary in itself to think by one's own intelligence but it's not easy to bear if there's no one to come back to. Many people had already poor social relationships so defaulting to the digital drug/pseudo-socialization was the easy way to cope with the pandemic.
I find that an analogy to television holds in many respects. The difference is that the internet is way more accessible now than TV ever was. But the thought-replacement phenomenon is similar. The world is f'd up enough to bear so a sincere reflection on the state of affairs would be unpleasant. It's easier just to fill one's mind with the diluted, sort of degenerate dialogue that the internet can offer.
