This popped up on my feed today.
Facebook, Youtube, Netflix and Hulu. Great pleasures indeed, just like getting high on marijuana and eating a whole box of Oreos, don't you think? I mean, the ability to just turn on an endless show and check out is what many of us do on a daily basis. What if we spent our time focusing on trying to fix what is wrong in this world, instead of binge watching on mindless internet series?
Now, don't get me wrong. I have had my time binging just like anyone else. But now days, going to work and caring for 23 elderly dogs, all while trying to make a non-profit successful, I have very little time to do it.
What I am saying is that the many people that do have the time to change the world are using it to just "check out".
Do we not see that sites like Netflix are distracting us from what is really going on? I mean, governments around the world are feeding their people processed foods, putting floride in the water, charging insane amounts for eating healthy, telling us that "Islam is Bad", all while they increase our taxes and not give us health care.
While we sit back in our comfy beds and watch the next episode of Black Mirror, we are literally becoming what we are watching. It's a sad world.
Will you push pause and binge on something that is worthwhile? The world is your oyster (but oysters are bad these days as most of them are filled with plastic particles).
"Imagine if trees gave off WIFI signals. We would be planting so many trees and we'd probably save the planet too.
Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe."-unknown
