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Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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Re: Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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notepad0x90 wrote: post #75
sallveburrpi wrote: post #3

Escaping the internet on a luxury trip doesn’t disprove political conflict… it just shows how privilege can opt out of reality and sell the experience as clickbaity insight.

can a poor person not disconnect in the same way? I think plenty already do without meaning too, lots of tech-illiterate truck drivers and construction workers with flip phones.

As with all addictive goods, the evidence will show that socio-economic factors influence the degree of psychological healthy/unhealthy or growth focused use of a medium/substance.

Smart phones are ubiquitous, and influencer is a key path for many to try and move out of their economic bracket.

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potato3732842 wrote: post #119
energy123 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's lame how a timeless Buddhist principle is derided as "privilege" by contemporary leftists. So closed minded and presumptuous towards something so effective and universally applicable. My personal observation is that those with the least engage in this practice the most, partly because they don't have the bandwidth to bother. It's the middle and upper-middle class who are the terminally online cynics.

>My personal observation is that those with the least engage in this practice the most, partly because they don't have the bandwidth to bother. It's the middle and upper-middle class who are the terminally online cynics. Look at what the people who were living high on the hog due to tax/graft/dysfunction before losing their heads in the french revolution got up to. Look at the rabbit holes minor British nobility went…

You really should give specific examples of what the French elites or British nobility did if you want to use those as examples to write off an entire category of people today based solely on their economic position.

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notepad0x90 wrote: post #75
sallveburrpi wrote: post #3

Escaping the internet on a luxury trip doesn’t disprove political conflict… it just shows how privilege can opt out of reality and sell the experience as clickbaity insight.

can a poor person not disconnect in the same way? I think plenty already do without meaning too, lots of tech-illiterate truck drivers and construction workers with flip phones.

Are construction workers and truck drivers all poor today? They could have flip phones by choice rather than necessity.

Re: Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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Post by _heimdall »

sallveburrpi wrote: post #3

Escaping the internet on a luxury trip doesn’t disprove political conflict… it just shows how privilege can opt out of reality and sell the experience as clickbaity insight.

This really gets to the question of what reality is though. Is reality really defined by living in a tech-driven world and living on screens all day?

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Post by nephihaha »

blackhaj7 wrote: post #118

“They were young and older, professors and small business owners (even an Army colonel!), Republicans and Democrats, from big cities and small towns” It’s just so bizarre to me as a non-American that someone would go to the Galapagos Islands and come away knowing the political affiliations of the people they were with. It shouldn’t even need to come up

I find it even more bizarre that someone would think that binary system is a real choice.

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Post by nephihaha »

dangus wrote: post #71
aneeqdhk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to a weekly subscription of Economist (print) and it has been great. I haven't seen then news in a year (on phone, or TV). If there's something really important happening, then people around me generally tell me. At that point I check what's happening online, but that doesn't last more than a day or 2. It has allowed me to escape the news cycle. I am yet to find an equivalent of the Economist for India (wh…

Isn’t The Economist a super “rich guy” perspective though? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard very good things about the publication’s quality and it’s admirable that it’s a weekly print. I’d almost rather just read nothing over filtering down to a single perspective that is that specialized. Feels a little like getting all your news through Planet Money. Sure you’ll know what’s going on but through a single lens.

The Economist and the Spectator etc are all part of the same club.

I'd rather read a magazine which didn't have the same stories in it.

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Post by nephihaha »

sixothree wrote: post #59
aneeqdhk wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to a weekly subscription of Economist (print) and it has been great. I haven't seen then news in a year (on phone, or TV). If there's something really important happening, then people around me generally tell me. At that point I check what's happening online, but that doesn't last more than a day or 2. It has allowed me to escape the news cycle. I am yet to find an equivalent of the Economist for India (wh…

The only problem I have with escaping the news cycle is relying on other people for important information. "Today is shorts and t-shirt, tomorrow is freezing rain" has caught me by surprise. So I find myself following the weather more than I would if I were watching local news. But it's not just weather. Regardless. It's good to feel disconnected from these things. But at the same time I recognize I have a responsibi…

You can check the weather by looking at the sky. I'm amazed at how many people can't do this. You can get an idea of what will happen for the next day or so. (Although if you are out on open water, always be prepared for bursts of bad weather).

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Post by nephihaha »

websiteapi wrote: post #30
zhivota wrote: post #28

Ignoring the obvious contradictory nature of the post (a trip to a place that is generally so expensive and time consuming that only the wealthy leisure class can access it yields polite people), what is the alternative to the fast news cycle? I've been toying with different solutions over the years but haven't found anything great. Magazine subscription to something like the Economist? Weekly Sunday paper subscripti…

you don't need to keep up on the news. reject the premise and be free. honestly we wish we could be more ignorant. how do you stop learning about the news when it is everywhere?

The news isn't even the news.
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