Understood. Admittedly I'm as guilty as anybody else, but lately I'm trying to take more time away from digital media to spend face-to-face time with people, look at real scenery, and practice physical hobbies.
If our hormonal reward systems are so fried that low-effort staring at a screen has become the most rewarding thing to do with our time, then the content industry has played us like a fiddle.
I'm impressed that you were able to cancel SiriusXM. I thought that it was set up to cling to people for life, and possibly continue billing their estate after death.
Any time I imagine that some past decade must have been simpler times, I think about it a little bit more and realize that it was the height of the cold war, or people were suffering from some disease that now has proper treatment, or it took months to travel to the other side of a continent.