I'm 29 and struggle with attention, procrastination, brain fog, and depression. I have since I was 12. It's only lately that I'm realizing that it's almost certainly connected to my usage of internet forums/stimulation (SA, 4chan, Gamefaqs, stumbleupon, etc.) which started right around that same time.
There's something wrong with me and there really are no other explanations than my compulsive internet usage.
> Ta-Nehisi Coates tells this tale of a very minor confrontation between he, his child in an elevator, it was the most inconsequential encounter, but he elevated to the status of ultimate importance. In his deluded view, it wasn't even a 'symbol' of racism, rather an act of deep rooted power that a white person could actually 'lay hands' on a black person as if they 'owned their bodies'. God forbid someone who might step on someone's toes as brutal act of racism?
Can you point me to the book & page number (or chapter)? I recently lost a lifelong friend to just this sort of delusion and am trying to understand it. However I'm already bad at managing my time and believe reading through an entire Coates book will have diminishing returns.
>My read of history is that religion is only ever overturned by a stronger religion
There's gotta be a valve somewhere. If that were true, how is our current culture (or at least the culture of '85 to '05) more liberal than the right-wing Christianity of the 50s?
There's something wrong with me and there really are no other explanations than my compulsive internet usage.