me when im reading a good book, and it’s a good book, and i love a good book

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

A child is punished for moving and making noise.

with the news about hantavirus, ebola, bird flu and covid still around,,, how are people not scared as fuck right now?? and i don't mean the ones who just ignore all of this anyway, i'm talking about the "leftists" who KNOW they should be masking, the ones i've talked to about this stuff many many times and always agreed with me (to my face, at least) but then just went back to their "regular" lives, the ones where i know they're at least getting some of those news on their feeds. how do they not want to protect themselves, their loved ones, their communites? the disabled and chronically ill folks they claim to care so much about? why do they feel like you're personally attacking them and overstepping their boundaries when you tell them how you actually feel about them abondoning you and their values just so they can return to their "normal" and live comfortably in their ignorance? HOW ARE YOU NOT SCARED???