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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
An awesome read about technological progress and it's advancement of addictive tasks/things, but I couldn't help but notice this quote as well:
One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best.
These two senses are already quite far apart. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.
Welcome to America.
