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Call it a perceptual tunnelvision that becomes a habit.

Ya, a tool with a sneaky downside.

Shikantaza meditation (it's what the zen buddhists do) has the opposite effect.

Obsession is just the overt form of the disease.

Concentrate regularly on a thing, physical, mental or emotional, and it will produce the disease as well.

And that second form is hidden because the sufferer is not visibly raving. And they are embedded in a society filled with people that look much the same.

But don't take my word for it. Study attention and its forms (direction, concentration, distraction...). Experiment with it. See for yourself.

Will do

I am describing the concentration of attention. Which includes a great ignoring. This is simple and obvious.

I am adding to that, habit. Unconscious action that is. Doing a thing while not aware that you're doing it.

Which, when we put them together, gives us a kind of blindness.

If that blindness is unacknowledged then yes, that's a kind if insanity. And it would follow that the more you concentrate the more insane you are.

If everybody does it (habitually concentrates) then yes, everybody is insane.

Is it necessary and unavoidable? I doubt it.

Am I being unclear here or just offensive?

Yeah that's why I put it in quotes, because it's a dumb term for what we're looking for here.

Try just answering those 2 questions.

Or not, this is exhausting.

There's a universe where we talk about it. Try that first.

You could try asking.

But we're always trying to increase revenue and decrease cost. That's biological. It's a constant.

So enshittification and change for the worse look alike. So maybe conflate them

So the only thing free from this constant worsening is that which we give special attention to improving. (Ex : technology)

(It's a strong argument for personal discipline. Chaos is the norm. Insanity is the norm. Rot is the norm. Etc)

Well I figured if you create more people then you create more customers. And with new frontiers comes new opportunities to dump product into taming that frontier (thus more sales of product). And if people die then the birthrate fills the hole and delivers new customers. And disasters function much like new frontiers.