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123 sats \ 0 replies \ @magnolia_mayhem 9h \ on: Internet Overexposure Syndrome - Katherine Dee ideasfromtheedge
It depends on how you define pathology as to how you classify these adaptations. In a world without sleep, losing consciousness for eight hours every night with no memory or capacity to defend yourself would seem pathological, but it evolved for some reason anyway. It's so pervasive that even bacteria have a circadian rhythm. I still despise sleep; I would really like to have those eight hours back. Regardless, I sleep and resent losing it.
We exist in a world where our psychology evolved for hunting/gathering in Africa, a society that evolved for working ten hours per day in a factory, and technology that evolved for TikTok. This all reaps havoc on our definitions of pathology.