Sorry for taking so long coming back to you!! this is interesting because den was kind of touching in this topic a couple of weeks ago (https://twitter.com/_sunpools/status/1805844541125079161?t=TxR47rYC_X8VBHStytiJiQ&s=19 ) and i loved how in few words she could condense such a good message.

I see in this post two topics: one is addiction and the other one is fomo, both driven by overcomsuption, both bad, hard to leave behind and scary when confronted as they are, but a pause first: i didn't really like (or at least the way a first reading gave me the understanding of) the way the need to know about the latest trends is being equated to the need to know about the latest news in the world, there is a clear and important difference both in content and in the action we can take after interacting with them.
now onto the topic: it's scary how every day more and more people relate to this, after reading this and den's words i asked to myself if you can be burned-out of consumption, and also the key element of that little word: consumption, feels like we're falling into the gluttony of it don't we? i've fallen too, i will not lie, it's sad being there, you think you're up to the world but it is so tasteless, you're following words that don't really speak to your soul but to a crowd and you think to yourself that at least you have company but still everyone has that void in themselves, black hole of more and more books, movies, posts, videos, articles; it swallows and swallows, you only remember keywords, you didn't even understand them yet you have to keep going, songs become candy wrappers you don't even like but the multitude keeps jumping to them and you can't stand behind. curious thing about identity isn't it? "who am i outside the crowd?" perhaps we know, but does it matter if we're now being seeing? we're not on the stage but we keep performing.
Here's the thing: no one cares about the two cents of opinion you could offer, and if they do, they also know they're not going to die without it. While reading this i was thinking: this is so interesting but what can i add to it? i do have an opinion (and i'm honored you're interested in it) but it adds two cents and sometimes we should save our money for better investments, am i making sense?
Funny thing, i ended up adding my two cents, can you use cents in slot machines? i'm making a bet here: you may lose your time reading me and i may lose mine ranting about a problem of the internet age.
It's not that we should stop altogether, is that we should do so with consciousness, everyone knows that (and we should also call ourselves out instead of explaining our fomo as "insatiable appetite for information" because those 30 minutes we spent checking the latest viral gossip is not really nurturing our minds, c'mon).
Lately i've been thinking about the unnecessary nature of lists (outside my work), you don't really need that reading/watching/listening list if what you're doing is putting preassure in the fast becoming of you as an over consumerist machine. relax. Also i think overall having this kind of relationship with things it's disrespectful to you, to the thing you're interacting with, to the people who made it and to life itself.

Anyway lol, i got worked up in the middle of this because I'm still mad about the time i spent thinking like this, thank you for sharing me this, it was interesting to read and a good rant to gather some thoughts here and there, i would love to read yours btw but if you decide to save this time i totally get it.