This might upset a few people who spend most of their waking hours staring at screens. But how much of your mental capacity in this age of information overload is taken up by absorbing digital slop that adds nothing to your own life?

As you scroll through your daily feed you are flooded with updates about what some tosser on another continent ate, wore, bought, lost, argued about, knocked over, got arrested for or pretended to achieve. Endless noise. Performative outrage. A stream of superficial rubbish, often narcissistic fragments of underwhelming lives. Every minute spent consuming that bunk is another minute of cognitive bandwidth flushed down the bog.

So how much of your awareness is invested in other people’s trivialities? I have been cutting back heavily myself. More focus should be directed toward genuinely useful things like understanding more about the world around you, learning new skills, improving your physical mobility, or perusing passion projects and longer term goals.

Attention is finite and consciousness is limited. The question is not whether the noise exists. It clearly does. The real issue is how much of your mind you are willing to hand over to nothingness.

The world was not always like this, constantly pulling us away from direct experience and into an information void of nonsense. As Travis Rice put it, “Experiencing the world through endless second hand information is not enough. If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.”

I don't do that .......

All my free time is constructively spent reading INCEL Harem Fantasy books.

Just now, BritManToo said:

I don't do that .......

All my free time is constructively spent reading INCEL Harem Fantasy books.

You appear to have cracked the code. Share your "best reads" list.

13 minutes ago, SoCal1990 said:

You appear to have cracked the code. Share your "best reads" list.

Hard to choose really, so much available ......

39 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Hard to choose really, so much available ......

This is better

5 minutes ago, Mike_Hunt said:

This is better

What do you do after.....talk ?

54 minutes ago, SoCal1990 said:

This might upset a few people who spend most of their waking hours staring at screens. But how much of your mental capacity in this age of information overload is taken up by absorbing digital slop that adds nothing to your own life?

As you scroll through your daily feed you are flooded with updates about what some tosser on another continent ate, wore, bought, lost, argued about, knocked over, got arrested for or pretended to achieve. Endless noise. Performative outrage. A stream of superficial rubbish, often narcissistic fragments of underwhelming lives. Every minute spent consuming that bunk is another minute of cognitive bandwidth flushed down the bog.

So how much of your awareness is invested in other people’s trivialities? I have been cutting back heavily myself. More focus should be directed toward genuinely useful things like understanding more about the world around you, learning new skills, improving your physical mobility, or perusing passion projects and longer term goals.

Attention is finite and consciousness is limited. The question is not whether the noise exists. It clearly does. The real issue is how much of your mind you are willing to hand over to nothingness.

The world was not always like this, constantly pulling us away from direct experience and into an information void of nonsense. As Travis Rice put it, “Experiencing the world through endless second hand information is not enough. If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.”

Go to the beach dude. Ever thought of that?

19 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Go to the beach dude. Ever thought of that?

His mom's basement doesn't have a beach.

1 hour ago, SoCal1990 said:

This might upset a few people who spend most of their waking hours staring at screens. But how much of your mental capacity in this age of information overload is taken up by absorbing digital slop that adds nothing to your own life?

As you scroll through your daily feed you are flooded with updates about what some tosser on another continent ate, wore, bought, lost, argued about, knocked over, got arrested for or pretended to achieve. Endless noise. Performative outrage. A stream of superficial rubbish, often narcissistic fragments of underwhelming lives. Every minute spent consuming that bunk is another minute of cognitive bandwidth flushed down the bog.

So how much of your awareness is invested in other people’s trivialities? I have been cutting back heavily myself. More focus should be directed toward genuinely useful things like understanding more about the world around you, learning new skills, improving your physical mobility, or perusing passion projects and longer term goals.

Attention is finite and consciousness is limited. The question is not whether the noise exists. It clearly does. The real issue is how much of your mind you are willing to hand over to nothingness.

The world was not always like this, constantly pulling us away from direct experience and into an information void of nonsense. As Travis Rice put it, “Experiencing the world through endless second hand information is not enough. If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it.”

Listen to James Allen's books which were written 125 years ago. Same worries and spiritual concerns then which I am captivated by and usually only get through 5 minutes of text because I constantly need to stop and think about what he wrote. Currently listening to 35 hours of his writings and might never finish at my current rate.

The world is wonderful but human nature left to its own, will seek doom. I do and assume you do also. I now catch it and laugh it off or simply ignore it. So much wealth, so few deaths by violence, and destitute is extremely rare, yet we are still just as unaware as a society.

9 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I don't do that .......

All my free time is constructively spent reading INCEL Harem Fantasy books.

You should share your most useful life hack with the site's greatest dropkick who now has a reputation score of -100,000. Hopefully it will lead to a bit of peace and quiet for everyone else on AN.

On 2/18/2026 at 8:05 PM, blaze master said:

What do you do after.....talk ?

Buy more food to watch her dance again.