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It's not the easy entertainment that's causing brainrot, it's the convenient sacrifices. The ads. The pollution. Time spent in cars. The plastic crap. The noise. The horrible news. The apoliticism. The talking machine that thinks for you.
Those aren't entertainment or luxuries, they're daily micro-tortures that are easy to get used to, easy to tolerate, easy to ignore, but still carve out pieces of your soul. People are being worn down to nothing as surely as if by any addiction. It's not the high that kills you, it's the side effects. Weed isn't a tenth as dangerous as tobacco cigarettes, and one's got more high, one's got more side effects.
It's both. And I say this as a consumer of easy entertainment (within limits, because I know the effects). We really struggle with tolerating boredom these days and that's not good for the brain. We're extremely overstimulated and exhausted but we crave constant stimulation anyway to ward off the "down" moments, the boring moments.
Yeah. I bet we're going to find that it increases dementia rates by a lot.
I wonder what the effects are on brain development as well. I could see it doing something similar to children raised in warzones, fucking up adrenals and stress responses.
Ads have taught people that every blank space and every moment of quiet should be filled with attention grabbing manipulative bullshit. If it weren't for ads, people would have an easier time slowing down. They can't calm down for the same reason an abuse survivor can't. They think the next hit is coming as soon as they're not ready for it.