A speaker who grew up consuming endless memes and culture online argues that passive scrolling has no outcome: no creation, no action, no awareness of impact. He urges listeners to stop mindless intake and instead integrate what they consume through deliberate action and creation.
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There's so much to consume around us all the time. And even when I was small, I was one of those voracious readers, consuming, consuming. I've always loved to consume content. I was one of those popular on MySpace millennials. Like, I've always been like, give it— give me all of the information, give me all of the culture, give me all of the meme wars, give me all of the— you know, like, I like to consume at a mass rate. The struggle though with consuming at a mass rate is that there's no action in just consumption. There's no creation in consumption. It's just consumption. So unless you turn off your consumption, all you are ever doing is just consuming. So it makes it very difficult for you to know what the impact of what you're consuming has on you, but it's also difficult to take any action around what you've consumed. It's difficult to have any awareness of why you wanna consume what you wanna consume, have any discretion around what you consume, which can be very dangerous to have no discretion around what you consume.