Which video game era did you grow up in? I'm a bit concerned about the intensity and addictive aspect of modern games. Consoles from the 90s not as much of a problem.

Thankfully we haven't had to fight off smartphones and social media yet.

I always found the idea that something that intoxicates us could be anything but detrimental to our health a bit strange myself.

Lately I've been thinking about how the written word didn't exist for essentially our entire history. So the idea of being educated and knowledgeable is a recent phenomenon.

The corollary is that minds didn't really evolve to 'know', they evolved to act and survive. Intellectuals are an outlier.

I do wonder how the combination of contraception and global warming is going to factor in. People are already foregoing kids because of global warming and things aren't even close to as bad as they're going to get. This feels like a pretty big variable.

Co-workers and the like button.

Stories are a far better method of sharing than a timeline exactly because of the like button and them not being public facing.

They (stories) are a more socially effective way to share what you're interested in or doing. Better UX. And boomers don't know how.

I don't see much evidence that the majority were ever doing much thinking. Before the internet and social media it was TV. From our vantage point social media just looks like a unique problem.

I figure the underlying cause of their support for Trump is racism. *Because* they are poor they're othering (and angry at / fearful of) other races, and Trump is the one who'll improve their status.

That makes sense, the only thing that comes to mind that could be an issue is that we're locked into Microsoft One Drive, but it looks like iPhone has an app for that. And based on other comments porting files and photos from the phone to our computers shouldn't be an issue.

What's your take on the value of getting an iPhone if you have no other Apple products, and have a Linux laptop and desktop?

It is the conceptually simplest system of property organization following what came before.

Marxism etc is symbolic of the desire to equalize things even further, but nobody did the hard work of figuring out how to actually do that in practice.

I wrote a longer mini-essay a couple years ago but I see the driving force behind capitalism as the protection and organization of property, as in literally everything one can own, including money, valuables, physical land etc. Few sovereigns (monarchy) vs many (landowners), and then non-landowners.

In a certain light that actually makes the world now *more* meritocratic, because it's less likely that someone is going to just come and pillage all of your stuff.

That form of capitalism, however, isn't 'what works', as it has serious problems. It's best described as 'what's happening'.

I figure the difference between modern 'capitalism' and the 'capitalizing' of say, hundreds of thousands of years ago, is that we now have states with a robust legal apparatus which codify and secure property ownership.

Hopefully there is value in those posts for you. I guess the underlying idea is that the emotion itself isn't the target of therapy, it's the substrate causing expression and how to keep that in balance so mood stays within normal bounds.