Our Distracted Society and the Deeper Nature of Distraction Itself
The world right now serves as one of the best environments for distracting oneself in the history of mankind.
We live in the information age, a time where entertainment, mental and visual representations of ideas (aka. memes) and thoughts in general can be distributed freely and to an enormous audience, no matter how pointless or superficial they may be.
We live in an age where the transportation of ideas and thoughts has become nearly instantaneous, where the ability to jump into a virtual reality with environments seemingly far more palpable than our actual meat-space has become easier than ever.
We live in an era where jumping from one thought train to the next, never reaching substantial conclusions about anything has become the norm, not the exception.
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