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I got catapulted straight back into the 90's for a week, on account of my wifi, and thereby my tv, internet and radio being out. I had data but had to use that very sparingly, like dialup without the screeching.
I read two thick novels and a novella in a week.
I manage two books a year, mostly, and I always thought that this was about mental bandwith.
No, it's about not having tv or social media or internet.
And I feel conflicted now.
They're such easy timefillers.
But times and infrastructure have changed. It's really hard to not have wifi. I could potentially go without tv and series on demand, but I have some very old school family that simply expects tv, and in that case some series are included anyway. I'm on my phone now too, not diving into dovstoyeski.
But it doesn't really linger and it can really sap energy needed for deeper concentration.
How much new media adds to your life? How much drains?
I can't pretend it's 1996 but I hated it so much less than I expected. It's nice to be able to read like it's easy! I did immediately feel that in that case I needed to renew my library membership yesterday; 20 or so unread books were not going to sustain me for long.
And it isn't as simple as saying "Get off Tumblr", because Tumblr has the best information on sticking it to our corporate reality I know. Seriously, I would be missing something that would make life in definitely- not - 1996 less hellish.
But it's also too easy.
Like why cook you have a Snickers right there kind of easy.
And now I don't really know what to do, the world is so full of quick distraction but it absolutely costs something. And it's one thing to kind of know that and quite another to experience it, if only for a week.
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