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Digitopia is ruining our lives
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#22It is not Digitopia, it is Internet Addiction Disorder.
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#23Ironically an article that is perfectly indicative of the very problems it is pointing out
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#24Hey HN, I, as many of you, work in tech. And the last 3 years were mentally horrible. The constant information bombardment, working remotely and rarely leaving the apartment, isolation, and so on and so forth, have left me scarred. If anyone feels the same way, I hope that the pieces I'm shipping are helpful as I truly want to help a million people on overcoming the 21st century pandemic. For those who are curious, I…
Please remember that your experience discovering you were not suffering from ADHD is not shared by all your readers. I have only been diagnosed after 30+ years of guilt and shame related to procrastination and other behaviors associated with ADHD. Please recognize some of your readers actually suffer from this.
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#25> Frequency: 30-60 minutes a day
30-60 minutes to take a shower?!
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#26> just enter the shower and turn the water on.
Reverse this, turn the water on, let it warm up, then enter the shower.
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#27> Being present - Being in the Digitopian state usually means living on autopilot. Grabbing one thing after the other, trying to get through the day, distracting yourself at any negative emotion you face. Yes, I've become aware that I am quite disconnected from "living in the moment" in a way that I was not when I was younger, a teenager. I had begun to think that it was a result of getting older, taking on more resp…
We do need long vacations to recover from modern day digitopia. Living in the US though doesn’t confer much such a priviledge. With an average of 2 weeks of vacation per year I don’t think it’s enough to have enough escape time to fully recover from it
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#28It's interesting that, every time an article comes up like this, I wonder why I never seem to experience the same kind of digital addiction or negative feelings that other people do - and then it turns out I'm already doing almost everything the article suggests for "unplugging". I've taken an hour long walk every single day for the past 15 years, and shower, and make sure I'm not getting overwhelmed with notificatio…
> perhaps because I know how to handle it properly
A subset of people seem to share this sentiment. From their perspective, the rest of us are somehow just doing it wrong when it comes to being online. What they never seem to have, however, is a clear understanding of what it's like to be on the other side.
A little vignette: I've been entirely off of social media for about 10 years, as in no accounts. Very recently, however, a friend of mine went on a trip and said the best way to follow along was on Instagram. So, I created an account and followed just that person and one other close friend, who is a fan of posting pics. Straight away, I was bombarded with an endless repeat of advertisements in the feed for some kind of colon cleansing technique. I'm unaware of any problems with my colon, so just ignore it, right? It's not that easy. Now, I have ideas about colon difficulties implanted in my brain. And it's now crossed your mind, too.
Some major forms of digital media insert themselves between me and my friends, rather than simply facilitating communication. In doing so, they hijack the power of human relationships.
It bends people. I'm not sure how else to say it. From where I sit, progress likely means giving up on maximalist capitalism and developing online stuff that strikes a balance between everyone needing to make a living and everyone needing to be cared for as humans.
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#29> Being present - Being in the Digitopian state usually means living on autopilot. Grabbing one thing after the other, trying to get through the day, distracting yourself at any negative emotion you face. Yes, I've become aware that I am quite disconnected from "living in the moment" in a way that I was not when I was younger, a teenager. I had begun to think that it was a result of getting older, taking on more resp…
> Last Fall a high school friend and I rode the "Katy Trail" on our bikes for 6 days. Hauled camping gear, tents, stoves, water, food... It sucked right up until the moment we finished — and now I can't wait to do it again.
I don't even need to ride a trail for days, just spending more than an hour on the bike outside is plenty to return me to the 'right' state.
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#30> I’ve decided to combine the words “Digital" and “dystopia” to describe the hole I’ve found myself in. "Digital" and "Utopia" also combine to make "Digitopia". (Maybe my most HN comment yet.)
Yep, that's true. I can only give a philosophical reply to this; we feel as we are in an utopia when utilizing tech to distract us from the negative thoughts/feelings that we are experiencing!
Why not digistopia? (digi-topia to me really sounds like digital utopia, which I'm all for... erm, actually I think a real utopia needs to acknowledge the real world, so it can't be fully digital)