Re:YouTube Addiction
by Apocryphon on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:18PM
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“ A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
Adam Smith wrote of it hundreds of years ago; extreme division of labor will make humans as dumb as the lowest creature.
To reduce screen time during covid I ditched my TV, bought a guitar. I already knew how to play saxophone and piano, but the point is I cut passive consumption to infrequent mentorship via YT tutorials, rather than endless staring, to focus on mechanical skill building.
Our society needs to let go of career memes, which IMO are coupled to historical memes like “A man named Farmer is a farmer for life” which forces us to relinquish our dynamism in deference to memes of greater good.
The only evidence human agency must serve aristocratic vision is being told as much from birth.