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I read the article. I found it hard going so probably was not for me but the impression it left me with was:

"I let the internet fck with my mind, now I want to un-fck it."

USE the internet, don't to let it use YOU.

>USE the internet, don't to let it use YOU.

There are several multi-billion dollar enterprises who spend all day every day trying to make their products more addictive (in your words, using YOU).

It's unlikely a meaningful number of people can pull themselves off of the dopamine treadmill by their bootstraps.

If enterprises can do that, then so can evil state actors. The only conclusion is that we have to shut down the internet.

We'll have to agree to disagree on "shutting down the Internet" being the only conclusion

The majority won't agree.

It's not that they can't per se, they just don't care that much.

Yeah my grandfather used to say the same thing about cigarettes. He could quit any time he wanted; he just didn't want to.

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