Haven't played my precious video game for a few days now, I must be burnt out. Good stuff. Time to transition my time to the next activity.
@edicted/addiction
@edicted/addiction-employing-restraint
It's not a disease. The push to start calling it a disease was to convince people that mental health issues are real and not some make-believe thing that can be countered with a tiny bit of willpower, but in my opinion that's just replacing one bad piece of information with another.
Addiction is simply the symptom of a much larger underlying problem; usually a coping mechanism to deal with that problem in an indirect manner, as the problem itself is usually too hard or seemingly impossible to fix directly.
The sources of addiction are endless:
I think for me personally the most depressing thing about this largely boring existence resides in the limitless unrealized potential of it all. We've got so many resources in our colony:
Honestly, if I wasn't living it, I'd actually be quite impressed and awestruck by how it all turned out. What a magnificent cancer cluster we've created! You can have it all: my empire of dirt!
If we look at how far technology has come in the last 100 years, we should all be millionaires (at least!). Yet, people back the 50's had more opportunity than we do. The Baby Boomer generation doesn't understand what's happening today. They project their experience onto us: just pull yourself up by your bootstraps; they are out of touch and out of time.
My family has tried to support me, but they don't know how. Thanks for the $2000 suit! I guess I can use this to become a higher-class financial slave? Cool. Thanks for the "education", same story.
Oh shoot, if only I could start up that career so I could get that house with a white picket fence and wife with 2.5 kids to fill it.
Regardless of how things have been, I've always had my head in the clouds. Where are things going? What could be? And the way I see it, our entire species stands at the precipice of oblivion. Evolve or die. Learn to fly or crash and burn. Considering all that's going down in the world today, of course I feel that this timeline is approaching at an alarming rate.
While I've never had the support that I've needed, at least now I know what I need in the first place. I need tutors to teach me. I need people to follow me and help me complete my projects. I need to embrace decentralization and the concept of shared ownership, utilizing the unending zealous work ethic that it ultimately promotes.
I'm light-years away from where I want to be, but as I've been reminded even in the video games I've been sucked into, a tipping point can come that changes everything as the system builds itself.
And so, what should I work on now, in this moment? My spider-senses tell me Escrow services on Hive/Steem are a lynch-pin. Unfortunately much of what I've learned about this Graphene API over the last few years is rendered useless when I found out that escrow doesn't seem to work on DSTEEM. That's unfortunate. I guess I'll have to start all over again and work on some HiveJS. Again, so strange how it mimics my video game bender, one that I also had to restart from ground zero a few times before I got it right.
Truth be told, perhaps all my struggles of the present will be rendered somewhat pointless compared to the gains made by a hopeful tipping point. Perhaps the only real chance I have is to wait for that epic bull run that gives me the resources needed to fully support myself.
The struggle builds character, or so I'm told.
As an Atheist (mostly) The Great Satan isn't a single entity. Satan is not here on Earth pulling strings before some final apocalyptic battle. The United States is not the beacon of evil the Middle East and the rest of the world is led to believe. At the core of everything wrong with this world lies a quite simple emotional mindset: greed. And it is pervasive and worldwide.
If you think that the Great Satan can be defeated with weapons and hate, he'll simply laugh while gaining strength. No, it won't be that "easy".
