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Mac Dohm's avatar

Popcorn brain. Never heard that before and it makes total sense.

Spot on article, completely agree with your perspective.

Technological advances of the past 20 years or so are geared towards locking down a consumer than empowering the human spirit.

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Tom White's avatar

Amen. “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.”

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Mac Dohm's avatar

That’s why I think society is going more towards a world of Idiocracy/Brave New World vs Terminator/1984.

Pleasure seems to be a better ruler than pain.

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Tom White's avatar

I agree. It is a willful lobotomy en masse.

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Mac Dohm's avatar

Willful lobotomy…that’s a poem.

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Curiosity Sparks Learning's avatar

Excellent gruesome image, excellent writing. I had a visual reaction to the image.

The irony of reading excellent articles on the great distraction ON the vehicle that IS the distraction is never lost on me.

I give myself an hour a day, and choose wisely. Your writing is one I read first.

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Tom White's avatar

Thank you!

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LizORH's avatar

I'm lying in bed with a pulled muscle in my back. Seemed like a good time to go on Substack and do a little reading. I'm gIad I came upon your words and thoughts. Although I subscribed, I will try my best to live in the real world and not in my phone. All this digital information suppresses my own creativity and life is less meaningful.

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Tom White's avatar

Feel better! Here are some books that you might enjoy: https://www.tomwhitenoise.com/bookshelf

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LizORH's avatar

Thank you! That is an inexhaustible list. I just saw my chiropractor and he really helped. I need to take it easy and not go to YOGA class anymore. It will give me more time for reading, a necessity & always a luxury.

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Tim Martinez's avatar

Killer

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Tom White's avatar

Not as killer as cheap dopamine!

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Jeffrey Flathers's avatar

It took me two hours to read through this post. Sorry, Tom. 13 emails, a couple YouTube videos and a trip to the backyard to fix the sprinklers. By the way, what were you saying?

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Tom White's avatar

Welcome to the new normal.

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