I’m pretty solid these days. Just reading more. Trying to get back into that mode in my youth where I would rampage through books. It’s kinda weird but I have realized that reading as a pasttime is like 1000% antithetical to being in the information age. Just sitting there reading (maybe listening to some music too) really slows you down and makes you realize you’re only doing one thing. You’re doing one thing actively rather than sorta doing like 12 things and doing all those 12 things in a rather disengaged manner.
I’m not even reading “heavy” books either, mostly just fiction, but just sitting there and reading is I think helping me fix my brain. That’s all highly speculative of course but I think reading is the cure for internet poisoning
I have realized that reading as a pasttime is like 1000% antithetical to being in the information age. Just sitting there reading (maybe listening to some music too) really slows you down and makes you realize you’re only doing one thing.
You know what’s funny… having to read a book online cuz one can’t buy the actual book itself… so reading it online kinda leaves one open to distraction…
(2nd person removed; sounds too accusative)
unhinged ranting
that’s my predicament, and I know it seems unproductive, but trust me, I will summarize the whole 3 volumes of Das Kapital, in the near future of next year, god damn it!
I’ve already read Volume I and Volume II seems to be crushing me a bit…
I’ve copied down texts, I’ve underlined and made notes (CHATGPT’d admittedly), and I will not stop
You know what’s funny… having to read a book online cuz one can’t buy the actual book itself… so reading it online kinda leaves one open to distraction…
Even reading .PDF books or something on my desktop doesn’t seem to work for me. I need the physical thing for me to actually engage with it. I don’t know what it is for me, but I need that analog feeling of turning a page. It really makes me realize I’m “Actually reading something” rather than “on computer”. Being “on computer” reading isn’t reading for me.
I’m pretty solid these days. Just reading more. Trying to get back into that mode in my youth where I would rampage through books. It’s kinda weird but I have realized that reading as a pasttime is like 1000% antithetical to being in the information age. Just sitting there reading (maybe listening to some music too) really slows you down and makes you realize you’re only doing one thing. You’re doing one thing actively rather than sorta doing like 12 things and doing all those 12 things in a rather disengaged manner.
I’m not even reading “heavy” books either, mostly just fiction, but just sitting there and reading is I think helping me fix my brain. That’s all highly speculative of course but I think reading is the cure for internet poisoning
You know what’s funny… having to read a book online cuz one can’t buy the actual book itself… so reading it online kinda leaves one open to distraction…
(2nd person removed; sounds too accusative)
unhinged ranting
that’s my predicament, and I know it seems unproductive, but trust me, I will summarize the whole 3 volumes of Das Kapital, in the near future of next year, god damn it! I’ve already read Volume I and Volume II seems to be crushing me a bit…
I’ve copied down texts, I’ve underlined and made notes (CHATGPT’d admittedly), and I will not stop
Even reading .PDF books or something on my desktop doesn’t seem to work for me. I need the physical thing for me to actually engage with it. I don’t know what it is for me, but I need that analog feeling of turning a page. It really makes me realize I’m “Actually reading something” rather than “on computer”. Being “on computer” reading isn’t reading for me.