Let's Discuss on The Content You Consume - Is There Too Much? What Did Our Ancestors Do? And what is Contemporary Humans Doing?

in #media6 years ago

When you connect o the internet there s content all around you. There should be trillions of hours worth videos on the planet. There should be trillions of pages worth text documents. There are more and more movies coming out and even on STEEM there are hundreds of new posts and comments each passing hour. We are now at a very important point of history.

The Books Our Ancestors Read

First of all most of them couldn't even read. Reading wasn't and isn't vital to life on Earth. these days we take it for granted but reading is simply a way of accessing information that is stored on a certain medium (most commonly on some form of paper). The internet is basically just digitized and multi-media version of books. The content stored in books were rare. It was also very expensive to produce books. At first they were hand written and even when printing was a thing, it still cost some decent money.

The old world was filled with epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana, Journey to the West, Iliad, Odyssey etc. You could say various things about these works. But one thing that is obvious is that all of these content had some serious value to them. One thing they are not is being useless.

What Do You Consume?

I'm not asking what you think you consume. You could be just someone who is working towards success and your idea of it could be just watching motivational videos. Recently I came across this very good video about motivational videos.

It's not just about motivation. You could simply replace "Motivation" with something like "Freedom", "Privacy" or "Blockchain". The reality won't be that different. You could be some random keyboard warrior talking about freedom but doesn't want to quit his/job. Alternatively your idea of freedom could simply be going back to middle ages or some primitive time that didn't even had toilet paper. The obsession with privacy lead to the current state of XMR that became a toxic community that ended up making the coin unusable in a massive global scale. If you want to talk about "Blockchain", I'm going to ask you if you have ever met a Bitcoin maximalist who think STEEM is a scam and attack practically every cryptocurrency development? If you've been around long enough, you should have come across such people.

The most important point is that all these things are content. Take a look at any popular Reddit discussion. It is likely to have tons of content that are not going to serve your life in any constructive way. If the time you spend on content doesn't improve your life, then that is an opportunity cost.

That's Just The Good Part

All those people I mentioned are at least attempting something. Even if a motivated idiot doesn't accomplish something that person at least knows and respect a certain set of good values that can make the world better. But what if you are just watching propaganda on TV and other "News" sources


It's as if the entire world's fallen in love with their insanity
Hear the innocent voices scream
As their tormentors laugh through all of it
No forgiveness from all I've seen
The degradation I cannot forget
So sleep soundly in your beds tonight
For judgement falls upon you at first light

As the violence surges
And the teeming masses have been terrorized
The human predators all gone mad
Are reaping profits born from their demise
The rabid media plays their roles
Stoking the flames of war to no surprise
Only too eager to sell their souls
For the apocalypse must be televised
So sleep soundly in your beds tonight
For judgement falls upon you at first light



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The Infograph was published on January 4th 2017. The statistics must look even worse today. The average person spends 1 hour and 56 minutes on social media. Let's give it some perspective. Let's just stick to entertainment. Ghost in the Shell (1995) was only 1 hour and 22 minutes long. People talk about it 23 years later and everything is just as profound as they used to be.

The above video cannot be even called an in depth analysis. Things get much deeper and the whole thing was made in 10 months! If a person gives up a vanity fueled platform like SnapChat they could have taken part in developing a masterpiece like this and still have a lot of tie left to do more things.

Technology isn't Bad

But it isn't good either. Same goes for content consumption. Learning things about spirituality, nature of money, innovators like Nikola Tesla can have a great positive impact in your life. But unlike old days, there isn't just few good books to read. There are many good books from all over the planet and they are liquidated in an ocean of either toxic or low quality information. Even when these things doesn't hurt you, it can very well waste you time.

Be Vigilant. Ge Your Priorities Right. Filter Your Content Carefully - Do Not Becoem Consumed By The Content of The World Just Because There is so much of it

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More than the difference between the quality of what is consumed, because the one who has good eyes can see the good in any place he look, the effective difference would come to be; if you consume as a means or as an end.

  • If the end is in itself to consume, then you will not get anything useful from it, on the contrary, you will lose time. The people who consume as an end only seek a rest from their lives, set aside for a moment to rest, which means that they are not really interested in changing their reality but in ignoring it.

  • If consumption is a means to an end, then it means that a change is sought, and as such, the action of consuming is significant. The fact that it is significant does not mean that it is positive, but that it can be both positive and beneficial, as well as negative and harmful. But at the end of the day, it will end up having a meaning and it will not be dead time.

Excellent response. I ended up responding too much so you have a long post + another post + videos to watch: https://steemit.com/media/@vimukthi/the-content-that-merely-entertain-vs-the-content-that-impact-you-a-response-to-vieira

Sorry for the trouble :-)

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