Re: The Seeking

In response to this post, but quoting the relevant part in case the link goes dead: https://unstory.eu/xlr/ “The internet was never that useful. No random scrolling, no news, no platforms. The internet goes quiet. The computer is idle. Shut down the computer and there is nothing waiting. The screen just filled that empty space cheaply. No risk. No failure. Cleaned the house and only time stays. Time for what? Replaced Battlefield with a feed reader and IRC with a static site. Same search. Different costume. The hunger just moves. Online, offline, it doesn't matter. Offline the hunger finds a mortgage, a relationship, a career. Real wreckage. It's futile.” People are reinventing nihilism from first principles on the internet these days. The sentiment is everywhere once you start looking for it. I saw someone on HackerNews complaining that they “wasted” an entire day playing chess. If you like chess enough to play it all day, can you really call that a waste? “Dopamine addiction” falls…