Just spent a week camping and…

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I felt a feeling of dread and darkness come over me when I opened up instagram, reddit, snapchat, and all the rest to catch up on what I “missed” over the last week.

I felt sick to my stomach, this stuff is the equivalent of an ultra-perocessed big mac injected straight into your brain.

We’re not meant for this.

Get outside, look at the stars, climb a mountain, say hello to people, spend time with your loved ones.

Reddit, social, the news, YouTube, etc. is all geared to make you nervous, scared, anxious, angry, you name it.

Things are only going to heat up over the next few months. Remember to take a tolerance break from all this and reconnect with yourself.

Step and away and think for yourself. Let your imagination run wild, let your brain actually get to….think.

All day everyday we are hooked on a constant stream of new dopamine spiking content that is getting better and more efficient at sucking you down into the darkness.

We’re on a never ending treadmill of REACTING to content that is placed in front of us by an algorithm.

When is the last time you detoxed from stimulus presented to you on a screen and just……got lost in thought, in conversation, in the moment.

Anyways, I’ve said my piece.

I heard Sam Tripoli mention this Bill Hicks (Alex Jones) bit today:

>OK. I just don’t fit in man. I don’t fit in anywhere, that’s my problem. You know my problem? I watch too much **news**. I don’t know if you ever, ever, ever sat and watched CNN longer than, say… …20 hours in one day. I’ve got to cut that out. If you ever watch CNN headline news for any length of time it’s the most depressing fucking thing you will ever do; “War, famine, death, AIDS, homeless, recession, depression, war, famine death, AIDS…” Then you look out your window it’s just: [*imitates the sound of crickets chirping*] Where is all this shit happening man? Ted Turner is making this shit up!

It’s funny! But then I thought, “Wait–no, there’s a lot of it that isn’t made up, and even when CNN lies the real truth is worse. And maybe a big part of the problem–the part that enables it all in the first place–is that people who can’t see it out their window don’t give a rat’s ass about it. Then comes the day when you do see it out your window, and by then it’s wayyyyy too late. You’re fucked, exactly like everyone else that happened to be in front of you in line.”

Absolutely agree. My OCD makes me want to “know everything” for “safety reasons” (hypervigilance, yay) but it’s very unhealthy.