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  30. As a middle of the pack millennial, this hit very close to home. As a kid I used to be able to spend a whole day from dawn to dusk reading books, I'd be able to happily sit quietly or walk around aimlessly & just think, for hours at a time. As a teenager I spent every available moment playing videogames, improving my ability to play guitar, or playing around with basic crafts like making bows from raw timber & still managed to read a book now & then. I didn't even want a mobile phone because I didn't like the idea that I should be accessible to other people 24 hours a day, wherever I am, and was the last of my friend group to get one. Since my late teens & through most of my twenties, the internet & social media has absolutely dominated my life & headspace. Whenever I manage to quit one, I just find endless novelty in another one. I don't even have the patience to really sit down & play videogames anymore. I can't even play a round or two of a roguelite or racing game without a podcast playing in the background & I'm too mentally restless to get immersed in story -driven games that I used to absolutely love. It's at the stage where I consciously realise every day that I'm compulsively sinking endless hours of wasted attention & mental effort into things that don't fulfill me & won't improve my life. For brief intervals here & there where I can't use my phone, I'm amazingly productive, attentive & inspired. It feels almost superhuman compared to my usual state of plodding compulsive behaviour. I really wouldn't be surprised if in a few generations, the way we allow devices & systems to be designed today to maximise engagement for its own sake now will be viewed the same way we in the modern day view the 19th & early 20th centuries where arsenic tonic was fed to children & wjere you could buy morphine, heroin & cocaine practically as regular household remedies. Anyway I guess the best kind of success this vid could get would be the worst outcome for this channel - people stop compulsively watching endless YouTube videos lol. I really feel like I want to put my phone down & never pick it up again, but it's just not an option now.
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