/lit/ - Literature

One of those things doesn't require sustained effort.

STOP using the internet.

>time my internet usage
>realise that I only need to use the internet for practical purpose for about half an hour a day, with the remaining 14 hours being a zoned out haze of porn, imageboards, and youtube
Scary.

We're becoming smarter on the internet's terms. Breadth at the expense of depth, fast visual processing at the expense of deep focus and creativity.

Do a dopamine/internet fast my man.

>>21318285
Godspeed.

The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLujan
The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman

>>19978173
I don't like being a sex organ of the internet.

Internet addiction exarcebates the symptoms of ADHD. Read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr.

Reminder that everyone, but especialyl those with ADHD, should regulate their internet usage.

>>19777558
>BuzzFeedculture writer
She's part of the problem. "Burnout" is just addiction to technology and instantaneous communication.

Dopamine fasting + concentration meditation, fellow victim of the internet.

Pretty obvious case of internet addiction. Do a dopamine detox dude.

Get off the internet.

The Shallows

>>16414225
>Will there ever be a book series as popular again as Harry Potter?
Probably, but not in the near future and never in societies that don't restrict the usage of devices with displays.
Permanent access to smartphones and the internet for children (and adults) wrecks their attention spans. Even reading a book for more than 20 pages or 20minutes, whatever happens earlier, is apparently difficult. Every second day there is a new thread about that subject here, where someone is complaining about having his brain fried by too much constant stimulation, making reading difficult. That isn't just a problem in first world countries, you can find smartphones everywhere and see people in their bullshit job spending time with them if their job allows it, like in shops with few visitors.
I do think that many people bought books of A Game of Thrones when the series was popular and most them haven't read it and are never going to read it.
Obviously you can meet people who surf the internet and still read books but most people I know in my millennial peer group switched from novels to series and movies if they want to have good entertainment in 2-3h. All of them used to read a lot as a kid.
I'm surprised that the middle class families in my soulless suburbia who are sending their kids to Montessori and Waldorf schools aren't restricting smartphones completely - they give it to them for 1 or 2h a day and the kids go wild.
There is another thing why Harry Potter would have it harder today: It wasn't that easy to have access to good movies and series as a kid. A kid didn't go to a video store to rent a VHS or DVD, No one went to Imdb to look for the best movies. People didn't stream movies and downloading one via filesharing (kaZaa for example) wasn't the norm. There were maybe one or two interesting movies that were on Friday, Saturday or Sunday evening and that's it. There were many tv shows for kids but somehow they weren't more interesting than reading books for many kids. Usually the kids did both, read and watch tv and it wasn't really a conflict in interests.

I found his arguments pretty convincing desu.

> Tomes for this sentiment?

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

>>16091442
Based and Carrpilled.

> tfw spent the entire day refreshing imageboards again