Digital minimalism is system-compliant because it frames a structural problem as an individual task. It serves the system in four ways:Individualization: It shifts responsibility from Big Tech's addictive algorithms to the user's "self-discipline," preventing political backlash.Performance Optimization: Promoted by authors like Cal Newport, it aims for "Deep Work". You don't quit to be free; you quit to be a more efficient worker.Class Distinction: It acts as a status symbol for the elite. Silence and analog focus become luxury goods, separating the "disciplined" upper class from the "distracted" masses.Controlled Rebellion: It offers the feeling of resistance through lifestyle choices without challenging the underlying platform capitalism.In short: It’s a maintenanceprogram for the modern workforce, not a revolution.
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>>107983293>system-compliant because it frames a structural problem as an individual taskWhat a nice bunch of very impressive big words. Don't you feel clever now? :)I have the distinct intuition that you are using many of them without actually knowing what they mean. Why don't we try that again, but with simpler words that are in your usual vocabulary, mmkay?
>>107984441You sound like you're just barely literate and struggling but I'll humor you, here comes the airplane>Digital minimalism is still a form of conformism because, in trying to band-aid some social-scale problems and some flaws in our economic system through individual action and personal lifestyle changes, instead of, say, changing the underlying system that causes the problems for which digital minimalism presents itself as the solution, it ends up protecting the system from changeI still think OP's thesis is retarded by the way
>>107983293The problem is these types of people, as in the writer, are the same people addicted to their phones all the fucking time. I have nothing on my phone besides messaging and banking because it is inherently an inferior computing experience to a laptop or desktop. I have no desire to use something worse.If you really want to escape the digital shithole, you would take the measures needed to be self-reliant, like living on a farm. But most of these people will rather live in the big bugman city (BBC) and complain about their increasingly infuriating lives while binging the latest slop and scrolling on twitter.
>>107983293>everything is the systems fault, I can't be expected to take charge of my own lifecan't stand fucking losers like you
>>107985324Do you think the entire world just happens to want to be addicted to the internet? We can work as individuals to better our lives, but these companies have research teams trying to come up with the next digital crack that'll generate ad revenue for them.
>>107985654I think the majority of people are sheep, and their opinions and habits mean nothing. If they aren't spending their time on internet platforms, they would be watching TV all day. Before TV they would hang out with other retards and do nothing of notice all day.
>>107983293Did you take criticism for The Burnout Society and wrote "Cal Neport" in place of "Byung-Chul Han"?
>>107983293>dont tell me not to consoom product>tell zog to make higher quality productgood goy
>>107985654>Do you think the entire world just happens to want to be addicted to the internet?Most people operate on some kind of impulse.Smarter but generally antisocial people have figured a way to work those base impulses to maximize attention.It's partially the systems fault, but IMO the mere realization that it's happening shifts the blame to you. You know the shit is poison but yet you continue to scroll anyway.
>>107985700This. The medium the fuckwit cattle occupy their time with is irrelevant. The biggest problem with the internet is that they are not only allowed to occupy the same space as Better Men(tm), but that they are specifically catered to within it (ruining it).It's a double edged sword I guess. Removing gatekeeping and elitism is the aim of corporate interest in a subculture, which both ruins it forever as well as expands it.The internet, and any subculture where this occurs, being interactive is what specifically makes this a bigger issue than say.. television or the bar.
>>107985700It sounds like you are overestimating yourself, and underestimating others. Hanging out with "other retards" is a much more fulfilling pastime than posting to other retards on the internet. I consider most of the internet to be a vanity that has no right to exist, other than to benefit some shareholders. Unless you own significant amounts of capital you are cattle too, have some empathy for your kin.>>107985987I see it as a systemic issue but I also take steps to better my individual life. I've gotten rid of my smartphone and am currently considering castrating my computer to rid it of the ability to run games. I've got poor impulse control though lol, call me out for being on this degenerate site.
>>107983293It's consumerism disguised as a healthy lifestyle.I have a smart phone that I treat as a dumb phone and hardly use anyway. Outside of that I do my daily work on my pc and I read on an ereader. That's all the tech I need.I don't need a MP3 player, a camera and whatever the fuck else in my pocket like some homosexual version of a batman utility belt.Digitalinimalist niggs be like>Gogo gadget performative iPod classic in 2026
>>107983293Why do we need a revolution? What are you some kind of Marxist?You don't have to become a new thing, a "minimalist". All you have to do is reject the predicate that you don't like.
Minimalism is just a scam by big small to get you to buy more less.
>>107987031That's the funny thing. The most minimalist thing is just to use your smartphone for everything, and just don't be a retard that spends all day scrolling.But consoomers gonna consoom I guess.
>>107991848I’d say you’d have to disentangle material minimalism (how much physical stuff do you have) and functional minimalism (how many things can it do). A smartphone is minimalist in a material sense, not in a functional sense. Asking a photographer to just do their camera work, editing and publishing on a smartphone is like suggesting to a carpenter that he’d be better off building a birdhouse with a swiss army knife, because it has a saw and a screwdriver, and even gets you a scissor and corkscrew as a bonus. Some dedicated devices are better at doing what they’re supposed to do, and provide a barrier to getting distracted by not having every function known to man baked in.But yeah you’ve got to strike a balance. Some retards take it way overboard and can’t leave the house without a giant pack containing dumbphones, notebooks, music players and cameras, which is just idiotic.
>>107983293>I must CONSOOM and waste my time on social>big daddy government needs to release some laws to stop me from doing itHave you considered simply not being a retard and not buying or not using social media? It's easier than you think.
>>107983293>the feeling of resistancefeels instead of reels/reals
