The contemporary western world is dominated by consumption. We consume at incredible rates and consumption is pervasive through many aspects of our lives. Produce, products, media, even friends.
Personally, I consume information - useless information at that. I browse sites like Reddit, LifeHacker, Youtube and superficial news sites consuming irrelevant information, jokes, memes and pointless gossip. It is incredible the amount of time that I, and others, can waste swallowing up useless factoids. Entire evenings ruined by cats, and interviews with someone with no hands or feet.
I'll watch endless TV shows, watch too many movies ripped from the internet and I'll watch crap daytime TV if I'm not at work.
And the truth of it is, I don't enjoy it. I sit there until 2 a.m. and I want to goto sleep, but deeper down the rabbit hole I go. This blog is a chronicle of this consumer state of mind and my reluctance to be influenced by it! I'm not going cold turkey but I want to reduce the way I waste my free time.
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| I hope I get to feel this once i break out of the rhythm of consuming... |
I don't think consumption is a good use of time. I want to create things, or at the very least not waste my time learning about pointless things. This blog is going to chronicle that effort.
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