I remember when I was in elementary school teachers would talk about minimizing time spent watching tv. Parents would be encouraged to tell their kids to minimize tv watching and spend more time reading. The point wasn’t to never watch tv. But to keep the time spent watching as little as possible.
It was well understood that tv is addictive and a life spent in front of the tv is no life at all.
But now we have the internet. Far more addictive than tv. People spend hours staring at the interactive tv that is the smartphone.
People spend hours engaging in “activism” on the internet that feels good inside but accomplishes nothing. The feeling of false accomplishment feeds into the addiction. Everyone instinctively knows a life watching tv is a waste but people are deluded into thinking that a life on social media matters.
In other words it’s all a drug. Makes you feel good but leads you to waste your life. Nobody says live and let live to a drug addict.
“It’s not a hobby for them, it’s their whole personality”
Just like a life lived like this is no life at all, a personality like this is no personality at all.
