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This has been on my mind for a bit and I just felt like I needed to post it and see what other people here think.
Earlier this week I watched the beginning of a new TV series with my wife. I don't watch much TV but I decided to watch it anyway. My observation all the way through was that it was just drama for drama's sake. The whole program was just screaming "Get angry about this! Get angry about that!.." and I just imagined an invisible needle protruding from the screen trying to inject "entertainment" and sedate critical thinking/aspirations.
I've been reading Tony Robbin's Awaken the Giant Within and the first chapters are about how we instinctively avoid pain and seek pleasure, or in other words make our dopamine receptors fire. (Sorry if that's not totally biologically accurate, the exact mechanism isn't the point of this post).
We have all associate pain and pleasure to different things, and what determines success in life is what we do to make those receptors fire. Some people physically force it (i.e. Drugs), some people exercise, some spend time with family, others binge watch to series, but it's all to accomplish the same end goal of feeling happy.
What I can't help thinking about now is when I observe people in different settings. If you went out for a meal and saw someone shooting up at a table next to you while their baby was crying you would be horrified, same if someone invited you around to their house and they sedated their children so they could have peace and quiet.
I know it's not exactly the same, but I can't help equating that to seeing people on their phones ignoring children, or sticking them in front of a TV/iPad to keep them occupied.
I see these invisible needles everywhere, from the food we eat, to advertisements, to magazines stocked on shelves, websites, apps, store fronts etc... They're all trying to offer happiness, not all are healthy.
Does anyone else feel like they have taken the red pill and notice these 'sedatives' everywhere?
Apologies if this reads as slightly unstructured, trying to get these thoughts out in a coherent order was a bit tricky.
Earlier this week I watched the beginning of a new TV series with my wife. I don't watch much TV but I decided to watch it anyway. My observation all the way through was that it was just drama for drama's sake. The whole program was just screaming "Get angry about this! Get angry about that!.." and I just imagined an invisible needle protruding from the screen trying to inject "entertainment" and sedate critical thinking/aspirations.
I've been reading Tony Robbin's Awaken the Giant Within and the first chapters are about how we instinctively avoid pain and seek pleasure, or in other words make our dopamine receptors fire. (Sorry if that's not totally biologically accurate, the exact mechanism isn't the point of this post).
We have all associate pain and pleasure to different things, and what determines success in life is what we do to make those receptors fire. Some people physically force it (i.e. Drugs), some people exercise, some spend time with family, others binge watch to series, but it's all to accomplish the same end goal of feeling happy.
What I can't help thinking about now is when I observe people in different settings. If you went out for a meal and saw someone shooting up at a table next to you while their baby was crying you would be horrified, same if someone invited you around to their house and they sedated their children so they could have peace and quiet.
I know it's not exactly the same, but I can't help equating that to seeing people on their phones ignoring children, or sticking them in front of a TV/iPad to keep them occupied.
I see these invisible needles everywhere, from the food we eat, to advertisements, to magazines stocked on shelves, websites, apps, store fronts etc... They're all trying to offer happiness, not all are healthy.
Does anyone else feel like they have taken the red pill and notice these 'sedatives' everywhere?
Apologies if this reads as slightly unstructured, trying to get these thoughts out in a coherent order was a bit tricky.
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