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The Death of Daydreaming

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707 points isolli | 1 comments | 05 May 25 12:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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morgengold ◴[05 May 25 18:54 UTC] No.43898224[source]▶
I often wonder how much creative productivity is lost on a societal level because of the phone addiction.

I often wonder if we would focus politically on different topics.

I often wonder if I would procrastinate less in the real world and face important decisions much faster.

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1. Nasrudith ◴[06 May 25 20:26 UTC] No.43909291[source]▶
1. How much creativity was blossoming in the 50s-90s from your average man-or-woman on the street who wouldn't own a smartphone? Not all that much. Maybe a few slightly novel yet cliche jokes a week, if they were particularly sharp.

2. Not very different except for the fact that there wouldn't be groups trying to make smartphones into their favored scapegoat for society not going exactly how they wanted.

3. Not any more likely than that keeping teens out of dance or pool halls would keep them devout and in church 'and on the right path'. Procrastination is an emotional regulation mechanism and emerges as a natural consequence of activities conditioning yourself against wanting to engage in them. Sometimes it is your mind saying "I don't want to do this right now." Other times it is is "I literally cannot do this right now!".