My rudimentary hypothesis is information saturation. Think about it, we have so much at the tips of our fingers. We can talk to people all over the world. We can easily slip into escapist scrolling or videos or audiobooks or podcasts. It's easy. It's comfortable. Many people get drawn into it. That isn't a failing on anyones part entirely. We live in a system where attention is commoditized. Your time is worth money. more so than ever before.
Anyway, not to get rambling about it but for me, I can't blame the people. It happens so often. There are so many things that are economically incentivized to make our dopamine fire on our phones and computers and TVs. You don't have to worry about what the person on the show you're watching thinks about your. You don't worry about the character in a game. When its over is when you set your device down. No worries. No strings attached.
It's easy to take it to heart. But I think it's less about you and more about the world. You have to cater to peoples individual intrests. Or make a spectacle. Or a wide variety of other mechanisms that get the dopamine and such flowing. It's the new normal. That's why I had to accept it, personally. If I keep overthinking the reasons in the moment, maybe I'll detach.
We live in a society. It is what we do with it. That's the only thing we've got. The ability to choose how we interact with the trials and tribulation and pain and love.
