Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?

• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So are you gonna explain your point or just keep feigning shock at what is fairly normal and common IRL?

  I’m starting to think you must not go outside very much, because when I look around, people who don’t have earphones in are very much the exception, they stand out, hence the question, and on a personal level I honestly don’t even know any people IRL who just march on alone without music or like some podcast or audiobook or something.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I didn’t think I needed to explain that talking about experiencing reality as though it were a burden is…odd. Even if half the thread weren’t saying that specifically.

    I use headphones a lot, too much, but I would probably seek therapy if I ever had my headphones stop working and subsequently thought hearing the natural sounds of the world around me was notable enough to talk about.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When there’s no novelty of course it’s a burden lol, staring off into things I already have seen and know is not exactly intellectually stimulating or enjoyable.

      And idk, it’s not odd at all, we humans have put massive amounts of time and resources into entertainment for this very purpose, the vast majority of people don’t enjoy staring off into nothing till their eyes unfocus, only the extremely online people think that’s what people want.

      We’re this not the case, we wouldn’t even have entertainment, nevermind billions of dollars spent on movies, shows, albums, fiction and non-fiction books, newspapers etc.

      Heck I’d go as far as to say that all religion, science and philosophy that did not serve immediate purpose of finding the next meal was created so we could better our lot - which inherently is maximizing happiness, and that inherently includes intellectual stimulation and fulfillment.

      I prefer to keep my brain going all the time if I can, it feels much better, always engaging with new art or new ideas inner and outer alike.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What you’ve done is develop an unhealthy addiction and you think literally everyone else has too. But they haven’t. You literally miss the entire world around you and declared it boring. I assume you’re quite young and developed an addiction to screen time since an age before you can actually remember any other way. Talk to any mental health professional, they’ll tell you what I’m telling you.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is really, really sad. If this had always been the case, most of the world’s inventions and art, including entertainment, wouldn’t exist today. It’s objectively a fact that people need to be bored/idle to be at their most creative.

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