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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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The only hell you might get from pirating and other "easy sources of excess pleasure" is the hedonic treadmill. I'd say Steam sales are more likely to cause this at this point but we're definitely seeing the effects of easy entertainment on the general population. Brainrot and all that. It's not fire and brimstone but the world ain't looking great. But personally I'd take notes from Buddhism rather than Christianity as the latter is way more preoccupied with what happens after this life (the religion of kicking the can down the road).
It's not the easy entertainment that's causing brainrot, it's the convenient sacrifices. The ads. The pollution. Time spent in cars. The plastic crap. The noise. The horrible news. The apoliticism. The talking machine that thinks for you.
Those aren't entertainment or luxuries, they're daily micro-tortures that are easy to get used to, easy to tolerate, easy to ignore, but still carve out pieces of your soul. People are being worn down to nothing as surely as if by any addiction. It's not the high that kills you, it's the side effects. Weed isn't a tenth as dangerous as tobacco cigarettes, and one's got more high, one's got more side effects.
It's both. And I say this as a consumer of easy entertainment (within limits, because I know the effects). We really struggle with tolerating boredom these days and that's not good for the brain. We're extremely overstimulated and exhausted but we crave constant stimulation anyway to ward off the "down" moments, the boring moments.
Yeah. I bet we're going to find that it increases dementia rates by a lot.
I wonder what the effects are on brain development as well. I could see it doing something similar to children raised in warzones, fucking up adrenals and stress responses.