In today’s attention-deficient culture, we’ve even lost the tolerance for waiting to be entertained.
A moment of silence? It’s met with anxiety.
We no longer sit with silence, we scroll through it.
We scroll through dopamine hits like junkies in denial, calling it “productivity” when it’s just well-disguised panic.
Multitasking the multitask.
One screen isn’t enough; the TV murmurs in the background while we thumb through a phone, while a podcast is playing on the computer, playing different distractions, neither truly seen.
We are addicted to the flicker, not the substance.
To be still is to be uncomfortable. To focus on a single thought, has become unbearable.
We’ve not only lost patience…
We’ve become impatient with impatience itself.
This isn’t efficiency, it’s erosion.
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