Love this. Yes, it's an addiction, and I suffer from it, too. And I share the same defiant surrender to it--a perfect union of happiness and misery.
My own strategy lately: figure out what I'm doing it for and everything organizes itself around that. Of course, if you're doing it for the sheer pleasure of it, forgetting is pretty enjoyable, and when it's enjoyable, you'll find it happens a lot less often.
One last thing: "Slow media." This depresses me. Everything can be scanned and mainlining knowledge a la the Matrix would be my ultimate and blissful surrender (I'm not sure where the misery would come into play, though).
On In Praise of High-Speed Overload
Love this. Yes, it's an addiction, and I suffer from it, too. And I share the same defiant surrender to it--a perfect union of happiness and misery.
My own strategy lately: figure out what I'm doing it for and everything organizes itself around that. Of course, if you're doing it for the sheer pleasure of it, forgetting is pretty enjoyable, and when it's enjoyable, you'll find it happens a lot less often.
One last thing: "Slow media." This depresses me. Everything can be scanned and mainlining knowledge a la the Matrix would be my ultimate and blissful surrender (I'm not sure where the misery would come into play, though).
Loved this piece!