The Next Big Addiction
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BattleOfValmy
Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," etc.
maw 说:
As a further note on this, it probably has something to do with what people think of as healthy, or permissible in terms of health. What represents healthy over the last decades has changed quite a bit, there really isn't really any consensus in medical circles of what this word even means. Every states' medical association usually has an iteration on the mainstream ideas of health, and international organizations like the WHO tends to have their own. In the soveit Union for example, at least for a time, people who refused to subject to communist doctrines were put into mental institutions because people genuinely thought they were deranged in some way.
Mage246
Feh, I just don't answer texts.
Pleasure robot addiction. I would very much like to get hooked.ealabor 说:
Interesting that lack of social skills is mentioned so often, because it seems to be a key element in addiction.
Drug and gambling addicts 'use' people to get what they want, and often end up lonely;
same with workaholics who lose friends and family, and gamers being online all day.
I see addiction as a form of escapism. People are unhappy with their lives (or just plain lazy and can't be bothered to put effort in) so they turn to drugs, alcohol, computer games, etc, as a crutch to help them escape reality. Or they use the television or their phones or some other form of entertainment to help their minds switch off and distract them.
Not saying that everybody who drinks is an alcoholic and using it as a crutch, nor is everybody who watches television a mindless automaton. But when you get to the point where these things become such an integral part of your life that you feel you can't function properly without them, clearly something has gone wrong.
Not saying that everybody who drinks is an alcoholic and using it as a crutch, nor is everybody who watches television a mindless automaton. But when you get to the point where these things become such an integral part of your life that you feel you can't function properly without them, clearly something has gone wrong.
Damn hipsters, etc.Swadius 说:
