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I want you to try something right now; Think back to the last time you were genuinely bored. Not frustrated or between tasks or anything like that, mind you, but actually bored, in the specific restless state where your mind has nothing external to process and so begins generating its own content. When did you last experience this?
For most of you I expect the answer is that you cannot remember. This is not because you have become more interesting people, you're almost certainly just as boring as you always have been (which is fine, most of us are!). It is in reality because you have been systematically denied access to the state of boredom. Boredom has been technologically eliminated from your life, and something far worse has filled the vacuum left in it's wake.
What boredom was was your mind in a state of unfulfilled arousal, seeking stimulus, and, upon finding no adequate external stimulus was available, generating its own. Boredom was the necessary prerequisite to the production of novel cognitive content. Boredom was the natural precondition for imagination, for creativity, for any thought that was genuinely yours rather than just abstraction.
The machines you carry have deleted this capacity, by design. What they have done is engineer a state of permanent preclimax. Your mind is kept in a state of continuous arousal, continuous anticipation of resolution, but the resolution never comes. You scroll: mildly interesting image. Mildly provocative headline. Mildly outrageous post. Mildly entertaining clip. Each one producing a small spike of arousal, whether curiosity, or anger, or amusement, or lust, but none of them satisfy the arousal, none of them provide closure or allow for the cognitive climax that would be complete thought, resolved narrative, genuine understanding, creative synthesis.
This is, precisely and literally, edging! You are being edged! This is the systematic prolonging of arousal while denying resolution! Except of course it is being done to your entire cognitive apparatus, not merely your sexual drive, though that is certainly part of it.
Porn addiction remains the most obvious manifestation of this crisis of acognition, but it is not the totality. Porn is just the sexual implementation of a much broader mechanism. What makes pornography pornographic is not that it depicts sex but that it provides a simulation of sex while systematically denying you the actual thing. You are not having sex. You are watching other people have sex, or more accurately you are watching a performed approximation of other people having sex, produced specifically to prevent you from having actual sex by capturing the drive that would lead you to pursue it and redirecting that drive into an endless loop of arousal and denial.
Now look at what you're doing in your day to day life. You are not thinking! Instead, you are watching other people think. Or rather you are watching approximations of people thinking, in each instance providing just enough intellectual arousal to keep you engaged but not enough to produce actual understanding, or actual synthesis, denying you actual new thought. You are being edged intellectually, kept in a state of permanent "about to understand" without ever reaching comprehension, permanent "about to be outraged" without ever acting, permanent "about to be interested" without ever pursuing that interest.
This is intellectual pornography. It has the same structure, the same mechanism, the same effect. It provides a simulation of thought while denying you access to actual thinking. And like pornography, it is not a substitute for the real thing! It is instead an actively hostile replacement that colonizes the drive that would lead you to the real thing and traps you in an infinite loop.
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The content does not matter. Political slop, science slop, history slop, drama slop, guru slop, the specific domain is irrelevant here. What matters is the structural feature: it is all produced to be almost interesting, nearly insightful, somewhat novel, but never quite enough to satisfy, as that would risk you leaving! It is engineered to keep you in the feed. The feed is the hunting ground for the predators, the hellbeasts, of the modern world, and this slop content is little more than the bait that keeps you from leaving their hunting grounds. Intellectual salt licks, if you will.
Like with all other farms in the modern age, they have made these feeds very, very efficient. They have identified the exact minimum stimulus required to prevent your mind from wandering into boredom, and they have created infinite streams of that minimum stimulus. Your attention span has been deliberately fragmented by systems optimized to prevent the sustained attention that would lead to genuine cognitive climax, the formation of a complete thought, the resolution of a real question, the creation of something new. And so you are trapped in eternal foreplay with thousands of partners who are not actually there and who will never satisfy you because satisfaction would mean you stop participating in the game.
The solution is what it always is: withdrawal! Nofap for the mind instead of for the penis (which, of course, has the benefit of making traditional nofap much easier, as you start from the position of not having a dependency on the macronutrient porn is a subsect of)! You need to reestablish the condition where your mind has nothing external to process. This will be unpleasant at first, because you are addicted. Your dopamine system has been trained to expect the constant drip. When you cut it off you will experience withdrawal and feel the urge to check, to scroll, to find some minor hit of pseudointeresting content. This urge is you craving the arousal state you have been conditioned to exist in. So resist it and sit in the boredom. Let your mind experience the unfulfilled arousal of having nothing to process. And then wait for the generation phase, for the point where your mind, finding no external stimulus adequate to its arousal, begins producing its own content. This is thought. Generation.
You will know it when it happens because it feels different. It feels like something completing rather than something perpetually deferring. It is cognitive climax rather than cognitive edging. An idea that is yours instead of abstraction of a preexisting concept. This capacity has been stolen from you by making you permanently semi-aroused, permanently almost thinking. You have been placed in an intellectual chastity device that allows arousal but prevents consummation, and you are told this is information access, education, staying informed, being engaged.
It is, of course, none of those things! It is instead systematic denial of the capacity for genuine thought. Reclaim boredom! It is the only fertile soil for new thoughts to sprout from.
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>I want you to try something right now; Think back to the last time you were genuinely bored. Not frustrated or between tasks or anything like that, mind you, but actually bored, in the specific restless state where your mind has nothing external to process and so begins generating its own content. When did you last experience this?
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>For most of you I expect the answer is that you cannot remember. This is not because you have become more interesting people, you're almost certainly just as boring as you always have been (which is fine, most of us are!). It is in reality because you have been systematically denied access to the state of boredom. Boredom has been technologically eliminated from your life, and something far worse has filled the vacuum left in it's wake.
>
>What boredom was was your mind in a state of unfulfilled arousal, seeking stimulus, and, upon finding no adequate external stimulus was available, generating its own. Boredom was the necessary prerequisite to the production of novel cognitive content. Boredom was the natural precondition for imagination, for creativity, for any thought that was genuinely yours rather than just abstraction.
>
>The machines you carry have deleted this capacity, by design. What they have done is engineer a state of permanent preclimax. Your mind is kept in a state of continuous arousal, continuous anticipation of resolution, but the resolution never comes. You scroll: mildly interesting image. Mildly provocative headline. Mildly outrageous post. Mildly entertaining clip. Each one producing a small spike of arousal, whether curiosity, or anger, or amusement, or lust, but none of them satisfy the arousal, none of them provide closure or allow for the cognitive climax that would be complete thought, resolved narrative, genuine understanding, creative synthesis.
>
>This is, precisely and literally, edging! You are being edged! This is the systematic prolonging of arousal while denying resolution! Except of course it is being done to your entire cognitive apparatus, not merely your sexual drive, though that is certainly part of it.
>
>Porn addiction remains the most obvious manifestation of this crisis of acognition, but it is not the totality. Porn is just the sexual implementation of a much broader mechanism. What makes pornography pornographic is not that it depicts sex but that it provides a simulation of sex while systematically denying you the actual thing. You are not having sex. You are watching other people have sex, or more accurately you are watching a performed approximation of other people having sex, produced specifically to prevent you from having actual sex by capturing the drive that would lead you to pursue it and redirecting that drive into an endless loop of arousal and denial.
>
>Now look at what you're doing in your day to day life. You are not thinking! Instead, you are watching other people think. Or rather you are watching approximations of people thinking, in each instance providing just enough intellectual arousal to keep you engaged but not enough to produce actual understanding, or actual synthesis, denying you actual new thought. You are being edged intellectually, kept in a state of permanent "about to understand" without ever reaching comprehension, permanent "about to be outraged" without ever acting, permanent "about to be interested" without ever pursuing that interest.
>
>This is intellectual pornography. It has the same structure, the same mechanism, the same effect. It provides a simulation of thought while denying you access to actual thinking. And like pornography, it is not a substitute for the real thing! It is instead an actively hostile replacement that colonizes the drive that would lead you to the real thing and traps you in an infinite loop.
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@dox.soy can you summarize this words words words?
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>I want you to try something right now; Think back to the last time you were genuinely bored. Not frustrated or between tasks or anything like that, mind you, but actually bored, in the specific restless state where your mind has nothing external to process and so begins generating its own content. When did you last experience this?
>
>For most of you I expect the answer is that you cannot remember. This is not because you have become more interesting people, you're almost certainly just as boring as you always have been (which is fine, most of us are!). It is in reality because you have been systematically denied access to the state of boredom. Boredom has been technologically eliminated from your life, and something far worse has filled the vacuum left in it's wake.
>
>What boredom was was your mind in a state of unfulfilled arousal, seeking stimulus, and, upon finding no adequate external stimulus was available, generating its own. Boredom was the necessary prerequisite to the production of novel cognitive content. Boredom was the natural precondition for imagination, for creativity, for any thought that was genuinely yours rather than just abstraction.
>
>The machines you carry have deleted this capacity, by design. What they have done is engineer a state of permanent preclimax. Your mind is kept in a state of continuous arousal, continuous anticipation of resolution, but the resolution never comes. You scroll: mildly interesting image. Mildly provocative headline. Mildly outrageous post. Mildly entertaining clip. Each one producing a small spike of arousal, whether curiosity, or anger, or amusement, or lust, but none of them satisfy the arousal, none of them provide closure or allow for the cognitive climax that would be complete thought, resolved narrative, genuine understanding, creative synthesis.
>
>This is, precisely and literally, edging! You are being edged! This is the systematic prolonging of arousal while denying resolution! Except of course it is being done to your entire cognitive apparatus, not merely your sexual drive, though that is certainly part of it.
>
>Porn addiction remains the most obvious manifestation of this crisis of acognition, but it is not the totality. Porn is just the sexual implementation of a much broader mechanism. What makes pornography pornographic is not that it depicts sex but that it provides a simulation of sex while systematically denying you the actual thing. You are not having sex. You are watching other people have sex, or more accurately you are watching a performed approximation of other people having sex, produced specifically to prevent you from having actual sex by capturing the drive that would lead you to pursue it and redirecting that drive into an endless loop of arousal and denial.
>
>Now look at what you're doing in your day to day life. You are not thinking! Instead, you are watching other people think. Or rather you are watching approximations of people thinking, in each instance providing just enough intellectual arousal to keep you engaged but not enough to produce actual understanding, or actual synthesis, denying you actual new thought. You are being edged intellectually, kept in a state of permanent "about to understand" without ever reaching comprehension, permanent "about to be outraged" without ever acting, permanent "about to be interested" without ever pursuing that interest.
>
>This is intellectual pornography. It has the same structure, the same mechanism, the same effect. It provides a simulation of thought while denying you access to actual thinking. And like pornography, it is not a substitute for the real thing! It is instead an actively hostile replacement that colonizes the drive that would lead you to the real thing and traps you in an infinite loop.
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i remember there was a movie or a story book based on that theory where guy just decided to do nothing and he had a truck slammed in his house hours later geg