First time I came across this site and article, and I gotta say, it really moves me.
As a man who wasted his youth, now cruising towards 30, I can understand better than anyone the feeling of losing my youths potential to a fruitless endeavor.
Exellent! I have a brother who does nothing but push joysticks and giggle all day at tiktok complilations on discord with his friends. When he reemerges from his cave of shadows he barely purses his lips to speak nor does he walk with any purpose. The light I saw in his eyes when we were kids is gone, it is sad to see the husk he has become.
My sister is also under a similar spell but with superhero cinema and anime media; she cannot hold a conversation about anything else. I once touched her hands and it felt as if she had just been born they were so soft and clammy! Just yesterday I asked her how she can watch YouTube videos and shower at the same time "I like the background noise" she says.
One thing I've noticed though is how much posture symbolizes the psychic activity of a person. For the gamer all of his active force must be channelled into the small controller so his body contorts and is pulled towards it like a black hole.
It's so hard to watch the slow decay of everyone around me at the hands of these forces. Being aware of these truths puts me on a tightrope of madness arising a desire within me to turn around and go back to sleep. I had a weird jealousy for the ease and comfort of the sheeple which is why the substack I just started is called "I Wish I Was Like You" after the Nirvana song All Apologies. You're work is great, thanks Chris.
The association of video games with Moloch is such an elegantly simple and profound move. While their physical lives might not be taken away, children and young adults en masse are engaging in a self-sacrifice of their own potential. But without guidance who can blame them? Even the very notion of that potential has been veiled by the vampiric register of modern discourse.
First time I came across this site and article, and I gotta say, it really moves me.
As a man who wasted his youth, now cruising towards 30, I can understand better than anyone the feeling of losing my youths potential to a fruitless endeavor.
Exellent! I have a brother who does nothing but push joysticks and giggle all day at tiktok complilations on discord with his friends. When he reemerges from his cave of shadows he barely purses his lips to speak nor does he walk with any purpose. The light I saw in his eyes when we were kids is gone, it is sad to see the husk he has become.
My sister is also under a similar spell but with superhero cinema and anime media; she cannot hold a conversation about anything else. I once touched her hands and it felt as if she had just been born they were so soft and clammy! Just yesterday I asked her how she can watch YouTube videos and shower at the same time "I like the background noise" she says.
One thing I've noticed though is how much posture symbolizes the psychic activity of a person. For the gamer all of his active force must be channelled into the small controller so his body contorts and is pulled towards it like a black hole.
It's so hard to watch the slow decay of everyone around me at the hands of these forces. Being aware of these truths puts me on a tightrope of madness arising a desire within me to turn around and go back to sleep. I had a weird jealousy for the ease and comfort of the sheeple which is why the substack I just started is called "I Wish I Was Like You" after the Nirvana song All Apologies. You're work is great, thanks Chris.
The association of video games with Moloch is such an elegantly simple and profound move. While their physical lives might not be taken away, children and young adults en masse are engaging in a self-sacrifice of their own potential. But without guidance who can blame them? Even the very notion of that potential has been veiled by the vampiric register of modern discourse.
Hi, very important work which needs more recognition!