My personal experiment with this did not have the expected results, at least in the first day. Internet access for me comes from my cellphone plan, which I can't simply abandon at the moment because I get called to my temporary work via some instant messenger app.
I was already slowly going away from Internet. I have left from almost everything online, very influenced by the data transfer limits of my plan ("data caps," as these are called). Here in Brazil, it is quite common it is quite common for poor people (yours truly included) to stay "sem internet" (Internetless) for days until the data allowance cycle restarts. Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush is fine and dandy, but unfortunately I'm the kind of person that slowly learns the hard way.
On the etheric side of things, I should also mention I got a vinegar bowl inside my sleeping room.
So I proceeded to install two needles inside the cover of my phone, one vertically and one horizontally. I think they are sharp enough, I punctured one of my fingers during the installation. In the same day I fell to a common trap, a Wikipedia binge. It works like this, you open an article, then you start to open related ones in the background, and suddenly you have read several ones and you have dozens of other ones opened in other browser tabs waiting for reading. This phenomenon is also known as the TV Tropes Effect (don't ever go there, it will suck your life).
I will admit here that I have several personal issues that are making this addiction worse. But avoiding Internet is being easier lately.
I would like to present, though, some ideas on the technology replicating the effects of glamour. Television sets changed drastically in the last thirty years or so, going from CRT and analog signal encoding to the current LED and other systems to display the images, together with the much more complex digital signal encoding. A current TV set is so different from one made in 1990 that there are very few, if any, common systems where the electromagnetic effect could reside.
None of the considerations above says that etheric disruption is not in place. I just think it may not be related to the electronic systems. My guess is that the glamour is a side effect of advertisement and propaganda, which is a work with magic effects that gets into subtler planes, that accidentally gets focused in the delivery systems, cellphones, Internet routers and TV sets. The etheric disruptors we are trying to install interfere with this, much like a vinegar bowl. Due to the different forms the magic ends having, an attack on the etheric component of the addiction has more or less effects depending on the user.
At least for me, there is a huge factor for addiction on forums. It affects other people, because I have seen it mentioned in many places, specially on 4chan, which I somehow managed to no longer visit. There, it is called (You), between parentheses. It is the marker the board software puts in posts to let you know you got a reply. People sometimes reply to posts considered stupid or trollish, "Have a (You)." Waiting for a reply to your comments in social media is a huge factor in Internet addiction. But again, this does not apply to the passive television.
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My attempt, and some considerations
Date: 2018-05-19 02:37 am (UTC)I was already slowly going away from Internet. I have left from almost everything online, very influenced by the data transfer limits of my plan ("data caps," as these are called). Here in Brazil, it is quite common it is quite common for poor people (yours truly included) to stay "sem internet" (Internetless) for days until the data allowance cycle restarts. Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush is fine and dandy, but unfortunately I'm the kind of person that slowly learns the hard way.
On the etheric side of things, I should also mention I got a vinegar bowl inside my sleeping room.
So I proceeded to install two needles inside the cover of my phone, one vertically and one horizontally. I think they are sharp enough, I punctured one of my fingers during the installation. In the same day I fell to a common trap, a Wikipedia binge. It works like this, you open an article, then you start to open related ones in the background, and suddenly you have read several ones and you have dozens of other ones opened in other browser tabs waiting for reading. This phenomenon is also known as the TV Tropes Effect (don't ever go there, it will suck your life).
I will admit here that I have several personal issues that are making this addiction worse. But avoiding Internet is being easier lately.
I would like to present, though, some ideas on the technology replicating the effects of glamour. Television sets changed drastically in the last thirty years or so, going from CRT and analog signal encoding to the current LED and other systems to display the images, together with the much more complex digital signal encoding. A current TV set is so different from one made in 1990 that there are very few, if any, common systems where the electromagnetic effect could reside.
None of the considerations above says that etheric disruption is not in place. I just think it may not be related to the electronic systems. My guess is that the glamour is a side effect of advertisement and propaganda, which is a work with magic effects that gets into subtler planes, that accidentally gets focused in the delivery systems, cellphones, Internet routers and TV sets. The etheric disruptors we are trying to install interfere with this, much like a vinegar bowl. Due to the different forms the magic ends having, an attack on the etheric component of the addiction has more or less effects depending on the user.
At least for me, there is a huge factor for addiction on forums. It affects other people, because I have seen it mentioned in many places, specially on 4chan, which I somehow managed to no longer visit. There, it is called (You), between parentheses. It is the marker the board software puts in posts to let you know you got a reply. People sometimes reply to posts considered stupid or trollish, "Have a (You)." Waiting for a reply to your comments in social media is a huge factor in Internet addiction. But again, this does not apply to the passive television.