iDisphoria

Blame everyone and everything, but seriously it's our phones, right?

The more I resist, the further I get dragged into the hyper media void. My stats are showing more than 3 hours screen time a day. It’s like a black hole.

So, my way of dealing with things (sometimes) is to draw them. It does have a cathartic effect. Nothing changes but you feel better.

Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus, whom the Romans called Saturn, eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him. - retrieved from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son on September 29, 2024. PS Wikipedia is again fundraising. Please donate. Notwithstanding word of internal struggles over objectivity, it is still the single most reliable and comprehensive online encyclopedia we have.

It might be less bad, the virtual world I mean, if the news were not so grim, catastrophic, terrifying. Media compounds the addictive effect of the endless stream of curious/fascinating/amusing cat memes.

The world is, in fact, statistically, a kinder and gentler place than ever before in history. More people are enjoying a higher standard of living globally, there’s less conflict (mind you, the Middle East and Ukraine are testing that), and less crime.

Alas, alas.

[Apologies this week to the folks following on Insta who will have seen two of these, hope to make up for it next week.]