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Not for me - or anybody else - to tell you how to spend your entertainment hours, but I encourage you to read this webcomic and consider your own choices: https://i.imgur.com/2H8gZq5.jpg

Those power structures are responsible for causing widespread misery. Inaction is something you might feel comfortable with, but your children, grandchildren and beyond may judge you for it if you never thought about where the lines should be and acted accordingly.




If many people are substantially harmed by wasting their time and energy on distractions, then those who waste less time will outcompete them. Whether the mechanism is common wisdom analogous to "don't drink alone or before the evening", parents teaching their kids in certain ways, religions that consider much "wasteful" entertainment to be sinful, or genes that contribute to conditions perhaps resembling autism where colorful flashy video registers as annoying or even painful, the problem seems likely to create its own solutions.

One of the premises of "Brave New World" is that all children are raised by the State, and are forcibly (a) oxygen-deprived in the womb to limit their intelligence and (b) subjected throughout childhood to indoctrination and hypnotherapy to make them say "I'm happy and content with my life, and my only desire is to chase consumer goods". I'm not sure why so many people seem to forget this.


Brave New World is also fiction. I'm the first to agree that fiction can be insightful and teach truths, but the fact that some author came up with a concept proves nothing.




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