On Passive Consumption

Passive consumption is among the few things that leave us hollowed out after we engage with it. The worst form of it is the short form videos format. The Pattern is straight forward: We need meaning and purpose in life while our brain needs stimulus for it to move towards it. The meaning and purpose in life is not like a hanging fruit that we pluck and that is it. We need to experiment things, think over things, get bored and also pay attention to our lives. Passive consumption snatches this opportunity from us to pay attention to our lives, to get bored or to experiment things. Resultantly, we have no defined single or a couple of directions to be concerned with. Because we have no clear purpose in life, we find no barrier to put in front of the urges to do other things aka distraction (checking your phone, posting on social media, scrolling enlessly etc). We cannot use our brain to fight our brain (and its need for stimulus). Thus we fill our time with meaningless consumption under…