Consumption Is A Disease

We used to call tuberculosis “consumption” because the body slowly wasted away.

Today we use the same words for media.

  • Consume
  • Binge
  • Feed

Maybe language is trying to tell us something.

Consumption was a physical disease

Consumption 2.0 is a psychological disease

The fix isn’t to delete your apps, it’s one intentional day offline each week so the other six are lived with intention instead of compulsion.

Pause is how we take back control.

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