Anjan Katta

That's the big idea here is we're so numb and overstimulated and so bombarded, we have normalized the way we feel, the way computers make us feel, the way it impacts us. And until you actually go out of your way, you don't realize what the hell, how tired I am, how much brain fog I have. How much it screws up, you're sleeping.

I mean, I think this is why you feel so good when you go camping and you just get away from everything for a week. Totally. Suddenly you start sleeping well. Suddenly you get up with the sun. Suddenly everything.

I mean, I think this is why you feel so good when you go camping and you just get away from everything for a week. Totally. Suddenly you start sleeping well. Suddenly you get up with the sun. Suddenly everything.

I mean, I think this is why you feel so good when you go camping and you just get away from everything for a week. Totally. Suddenly you start sleeping well. Suddenly you get up with the sun. Suddenly everything.

It's almost crazy that we've ended up this way because if you were diabolical and you were to design a society, you would come up with something similar to this. Check up everybody's nervous system such that they can't really think or feel. They're just reacting to things. And give them something in front of them that can give them endless stimulation.

It's almost crazy that we've ended up this way because if you were diabolical and you were to design a society, you would come up with something similar to this. Check up everybody's nervous system such that they can't really think or feel. They're just reacting to things. And give them something in front of them that can give them endless stimulation.

It's almost crazy that we've ended up this way because if you were diabolical and you were to design a society, you would come up with something similar to this. Check up everybody's nervous system such that they can't really think or feel. They're just reacting to things. And give them something in front of them that can give them endless stimulation.

That's an endless slot machine of variable reward. and put their physiology in a state between the blue light, the fact that it is bright light and it's flickering, such that you're always craving stimulation. Boom. Boom. Brave new world right there. Have you read Brave New World or Neil Postman? No, I haven't. I almost want to read it out loud. It's so good at describing this.

That's an endless slot machine of variable reward. and put their physiology in a state between the blue light, the fact that it is bright light and it's flickering, such that you're always craving stimulation. Boom. Boom. Brave new world right there. Have you read Brave New World or Neil Postman? No, I haven't. I almost want to read it out loud. It's so good at describing this.

That's an endless slot machine of variable reward. and put their physiology in a state between the blue light, the fact that it is bright light and it's flickering, such that you're always craving stimulation. Boom. Boom. Brave new world right there. Have you read Brave New World or Neil Postman? No, I haven't. I almost want to read it out loud. It's so good at describing this.

Let's see if I can pull this up.

Let's see if I can pull this up.

Let's see if I can pull this up.

Okay. So this guy named Neil Postman wrote this book called musing ourselves to death.

Okay. So this guy named Neil Postman wrote this book called musing ourselves to death.

Okay. So this guy named Neil Postman wrote this book called musing ourselves to death.

I think it's forward to the book just describes what we're talking about. So incredibly. So I'm going to read it out. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we at least had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

I think it's forward to the book just describes what we're talking about. So incredibly. So I'm going to read it out. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we at least had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

I think it's forward to the book just describes what we're talking about. So incredibly. So I'm going to read it out. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we at least had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.

we had forgotten that alongside orwell's dark vision there was another slightly older slightly less less well-known equally chilling aldous huxley's brave new world contrary to common belief even amongst the educated huxley and orwell did not prophecy the same thing orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression but in huxley's vision