"Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying."
— John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
I wonder what John Stuart Mill would have thought of Social Media. Would he think that it is degrading our attention and "pleasures" so much that some young people no longer enjoy to converse or read? Many people today think so. To some extent, I've experienced this myself. There was a time when social media, video in particular, was so necessary for my brain to feel calm, that it took a 40 day fast of all media, and a lot of prayer, to be calm in silence again.
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