I am applying values I was taught in the 1950s here. So, you have to consider I'm looking at all this as someone who has lived since the late 1940s and been aware more or less of most things going on since around 1950.
When I grew up most people died from wrong thinking, lack of exercise (except for working) Alcohol, cigarettes, tobacco in general and being steak and potatoes men and women where they came home from work, had a steak and potatoes and gravy, then had a beer, went to sleep and died sometime between the ages of 35 and 50 years of age. This was mostly men I saw die like this and I saw this mostly between the 1950s and the 1960s. After that more people started to study diet and exercise and how to have fun getting exercise including myself. I started out by doing exercises with Jack LaLane on TV in Los Angeles with my mother in the 1950s. This was a very good idea because it started me jogging down an uncompleted freeway at night after school by age 12 and I continued jogging like this until my feet gave out in my early 40s and I had to stop running.
But now, more people eat well and go to Whole Foods and study organic foods and won't eat processed GMO foods and exercise to have fun and feel good than used to then.
But, almost everyone thinks it's okay to get addicted in various ways to the Internet through their smartphones and through tablets and laptops and desktop computers worldwide.
There are a variety of ways people are getting addicted to the Internet. One way is through computer games. Another way is through dating sites where people go for dinner and sex as a way to avoid commitment and getting married and having children. There are many different ways in which you can avoid dealing with anything important in your life by adding computers to the mix.
When I grew up there really was no way to avoid reality other than likely alcohol in life when I grew up. Most people were not aware of illegal drugs in society in the 1950s. So, diet and bad consciousness and not being emotionally in touch with reality killed most people then.
But now, there is therapy and diet and consciousness and exercising while having fun like bicycling, skiing, surfing, swimming, jogging, etc. etc. etc.
So now, one of the biggest problems is actually the Internet itself that everyone sort of forgets how subtly it takes what is most important from us.
(Time to think and feel about all the things going on in our lives).
What else takes all our time?
Our work which many do 60 to 100 hours a week.
How can you be in touch with yourself if you do this?
Unless you are a really exceptional person who is doing what they love, (and there are few people doing this), then how do you stay in touch with yourself, your health, your friends, your family?
So, just like in the past, staying in touch with yourself and your friends and your family is how to maintain balance. But, even more important than being in touch with everyone else is being in touch with yourself and your own needs and your own dreams.
So, the more time you spend escaping into a computer the less time you are discovering yourself and what you actually think and feel and want in your life.
So, what is lost here?
You are lost by not knowing what you really want or need by just escaping into computers when you need to be instead discovering yourself so you actually want to stay alive in the first place.
Escaping some of the time might be useful. But if you escape all the time how do you know who you are and where your life is going from here?
Only through self-reflection can any of us design and create our future.
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