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\nI’m just so frustrated by how quickly and easily people give in to these things. People face relatively small inconveniences and quickly give away their rights. Smart phones and social media (in large part, enabled by always-on, always-present smart phones) have so, so many negatives effects and people won’t even consider moving on. “It’s hard to find parking” or “some restaurants are now inconvenient to eat at” are measured next to “the suicide rate of teen girls is spiking” and “we’ve enabled government tracking and surveillance on a scale never before thought possible.” I don’t know how else to be. People are so obsessed with immediate impulse satisfaction and immediate comfort that they’d give up anything. I think if you offered to remove someone’s right to vote, but told them they would be able to gamble for free once a month you’d lose half the votes in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I think hyper, ultra-convenience short-circuits our brains.<\/p>\n
Once on that \u201cI am a god and just talk or tap to get anything I want\u201d, <\/em>people don\u2019t want to go back.<\/p>\n
Self-discipline blown out of the water.<\/p>\n
Except that the entire juiciness of life is in the balance and oscillation between joy and pain. Effort and rest. Comfort, and discomfort. Struggle and mastery.<\/p>\n
Once on that god shit, your brain doesn\u2019t do anything. And so it atrophies. Or reacts violently against a change from doing nothing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m keeping a line. I stay on the slightly inconvenient side of life to keep the smell, the taste. It feels stupid sometimes. But it always leads somewhere, to something, someone.<\/p>\n
Ultra-convenience makes you rot in circle. Self-discipline makes you travel distances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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