How to Quit Your Phone Addiction - Philosophical Analysis
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Why is it so hard to put down your phone? In this video I talk about the instant gratification trap, fetishistic disavowal, and some thoughts on the value of attention.
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Julian
Thumbnail art: Edward Lamson Henry, the widower (1873)
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The modern existence is built around the economy of addictions.
Huge oversimplification but you’re close
It’s not so much an oversimplification but a meta analysis of the post modern modern epoch. Capitalism is the epitome of this idea. We are living this. And it’s going to get more and more complex as the generations below us will never have access to people that lived in The Time Before… we have a great relearning process underway- we are struggling to learn the language of expressing this nebulous, untethered time that this era is.
@@maxwelllegere1483 You have a very narrow perspective on the problem. Smarphone addiction is just one instance. There are plenty other addictions on offer for humans to cope with the symptoms of larger systemic problems.
Looking at attention as a form of love that is given only to that which is worthwhile is a great way to look at things. You would not give your love to just anything or anybody. Thanks for the great insights, Julian.
We don't pick our phones to find out what's going on, we pick them up to ensure, with considerable truthfulness that we are in no danger of finding out anything more about ourselves..
What an interesting insight
Still it's some sort of individual habit. Some people avoid cognitive dissonance more than others. Just an unqualified experience.
"Thank you for your attention" is just much more meaningful now
Now I'm addicted to philosophy
A permissible addiction
That's hella better than doom scrolling ya phone all day. You actually gain wisdom from philosophy
This is why pursuing desires leaves us empty while renunciation and prayer make us feel fulfilled. It is Ramadan and, ironically, fasting is what quenches my thirst
Watched as you’ve recorded this on a phone or electronic object, and I am watching on the very device you described, wondering, waiting, understanding, and perplexed at the situation that brought us to this point. Together.
Thank you Julian.
I think it is good to remember what Zizek has said: "capitalism is the only system that makes it possible for poor people to go for shopping spree and be a rich guy for a day" or something like that
Never clicked so quickly yet with such a sinking feeling of dread
We are not addicted to the new, not truly new and different, we are addicted to slight variation of the same thing, simulacras, copies without originals.
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I've only recently come to accept that I'm an internet adict, and god I wish we had an internet AA lol.
It's hard to accept that the thinks you used to find enjoyable used to be are no longer, faced with the precipice of nothing and everything, the anxiety of freedom, the abyss staring back.
life is just a constant decision between drive and contentment. I think social media and our phones are luring us into a minigame where you have a drive to see more content but also to feel contentment from your experience, but you never will. the key is to decide what you need more of right now, drive (purpose in life) or contentment (such as accepting a simpler life), and seek that out outside of your phone, because the reason you're looking for it online is because you're missing it in real life.
thank you for this. that's the most powerful thought I had today
Very much true Julian. Concise and elucidatory.
This is a beautiful lecture. Thanks Julian!
What a fantastic video. 10/10, really great takes and so much wisdom in this. Thanks! Dont stop
I remember tony blair using focus groups to find out what we unknowingly wanted... then he presented that to us, telling us it was 'realism'.
I recently lost my dog, he was such a beautiful creature, he was my addiction, i lived for him. He reminded why donna harraway was right regarding how phones and tech replaces those true and real relationships with eachother and spcially that bettwen us and animals - naturecultres.
Rip Hank.
Amazing Julian, you make the things that are necesarry to the deep end into contingents
That's absolutely right, we must be conscious to what we pay our attenion. In our times where everything online tries to grab our attention we must practice restrain.
The evocation of the rat experiment reminded me of Heine's great lines to one of his poems:
There are two kinds of rat
The hungry and the fat
The fat are content at home
THe hungry, though hungrily roam.
I appreciate the Never Stop Never Stopping reference
No, Jules, thank YOU !!!
Great video, thank you!
Thank you!
I am in a strange situation where I cannot go out or do anything so my phone has become the only way out to exist in the outside world. Seems very sci-fi in a way and yet it is so real and current.
I do feel a bit like the rat in the maze, but every step forward is loaded with so much pain and the walls seem unsermountable.
Going online tho, has been contrary to what other comments mention. It has been the way to find more about myself and the world. Tho I would have preferred things to work differently, it is what I have now.
The world is a strange and scary place sometimes!
I like to listen to your vids with Disco Elysium's OST in the bacground
Thank you! You’ll be pleased to know that instead of watching more of your videos (maybe I will on a later date), I’m now putting down my iPad, picking up my book (Alice in wonderland) and giving attention to those around me.
Ironically, you are watching this on your phone after hours of scrolling... I know I am.
powerful
watching this from my phone rn
Great video
3:11 - 3:20 this guy has clearly never beaten Malenia from Elden Ring after pulling an all-nighter. There is truly no greater pleasure in this life.
My phone addiction brought me here
now take in for ex studies of Huberman on Dopamin this would be a scientific philosophical bomb 🤯
Kind of a tangent but I just realized the hamster example at 6:16 is John Wick, but with a dog 😅
Julian de Medeiros, This made me laugh so hard, thanks for sharing!
This was a good one…
❤
I liked your video
I appreciate your efforts but this kind of analysis just makes me sad. A couple of passing references to the attention economy. Very little attention to the way the technology is designed to capture our attention. Lots attention devoted to psychoanalytic categories which as always end up putting it all on our individual efforts of will power. Not the slightest acknowledgement that there’s an entire field of not as dubious psychology: namely actual empirical psychology…
What do I get out of this? Protect your attention? Be different than millions and missions through sheer will power?
I don’t understand the allure of these kinds of philosophical analysis which simply entertain, make one feel smart and guilty, and do not at all guide real life.
Great Video :D Perhaps you're not gonna like this, but you're starting to sound more and more like Jonathan Pageau, the orthodox Christian friend of Jordan Peterson, especially when it comes to the relationship of attention to love and their relationship to being/existence.
Faustian Pragmatism?
A Christian would not be thrilled to obtain that title
@@TheWay-u1n No idea what you're alluding to, sorry.
Nothing like JP at all. And I guarantee he has read infinitely more than JP.
The primary function of media today is the mediation of resentment.