#Diatracted and undistracted time reaction tv
But while the quality of available digital entertainment now has never been better or more diverse, the real issue is availability and social acceptance – No matter how good a TV show was in the past, you couldn’t summon an episode on demand and watch it on the bus. Obviously digital distractions are hardly new, but in the last 15 years the quality and accessibility of digital distraction has reached a point that our monkey minds are not well equipped to handle. You might know people in your own life who can’t even sleep without YouTube running in the background, or a podcast – so that there won’t be single moment in the day without being slightly numbed to what’s actually happening right now. Indeed, it’s possible to have an entire day of this – a life spent moving from one glowing rectangle to another. If a party is slightly boring, then your smartphone is always there to absorb you. If you feel unhappy you can push down your ruminations with Netflix. If you feel slightly anxious you can just scroll mindlessly through Instagram or TikTok for hours. Our digital distractions deprive us of the opportunity to face the discomforts of life head-on.
They gently smother whatever unpleasant feelings we might be experiencing in the same way as a smouldering grease fire – the feelings smoking away, waiting for the distraction to be lifted (the laptop to be closed, the phone to be put down) before the unpleasant feeling flares up again on contact with the air. Digital distractions in our contemporary worldĭigital distractions have never been more immediately accessible to us. As practitioners of the dharma, it is useful to consider if our engagement with our digital distractions actually hinders our practice. While we might all be familiar with the sense that our digital distractions make it harder to engage in more worthwhile activities and make it easy to procrastinate, we rarely pause to reflect on how our distractions impair our ability to feel – to experience challenging thoughts, emotions, and moments in our lives. Is there a better way to describe our modern, digital distractions? Our constant connections to the internet via our smartphones and entertainments like Netflix, videogames, Instagram, Facebook, and 24-hour news all allow us to temporarily transport ourselves away from whatever stresses or pressures we might be feeling at any moment of the day.
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