People so ardently wish to feel what is pleasant, to undergo something stimulating, something that stirs them from their habitual torpor. It is for that reason that certain substances... like, alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, kratom, laughing gas, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine, ketamine, heroin, GHB, fentanyl, LSD, psilocybin, etc. etc., exert a powerful allure.
Yet the emotion-provoking fare dispensed by the communal networks serves the same function. It ensnares just as firmly. It leads, with equal certainty, to thinking confined to the immediate moment. It narrows attention, contracts awareness, and renders the spirit incurious. In this manner, amid incessant excitation, indifference takes root and quietly prospers.