turning your brain off

ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems a certain group of people who spend way too much time on the internet have adapted a principle of "turning your brain off". don't think, just consume. i mean, i get why. i get why you'd want to scroll through tik tok 2 hours a day. i get why you'd want to indulge on junk food. i get why you'd want to go on temu and buy a haul of stuff you don't need. i get why you'd want to watch an anime about an average joe in a JRPG-esque fantasy world getting super OP skills and a bunch of hot girls who all want to [REDACTED] him. life is frustrating, and sometimes you just want to melt your brain and numb yourself to it all. i get that, i really do. if anything, that just makes me hate it even more. i can't help but believe that the rich men want us to follow this principle, because it's a distraction from more important issues. issues that they, the rich men, caused. don't get it twisted; this is all their fault. we can sit here on our computers and…