This article is brainrot.

It is ragebait with no clear idea on actual steps to take against the brainrot industrial complex.

It states that we can't or shouldn't even bother thinking about what to do about it instead it offers super generic unhelpful self-help guideline that is almost impossible to do since we must fight the brainrot industrial complex every ms to make it while they just have to win once an hour (or less) to keep us occupied.

I'm all for describing problems without even trying to find solutions.

But this is worse: this pretends to offer a solution so we get the kick of feeling good without actually accomplishing anything.

True brainrot crap article.

[Edit:] Spelling and formatting

Hi, I am the author of this. Perhaps I should make the last section “What can we do about it?” more detail, then again the piece is not title “How to defeat The Brainrot Industrial Complex.”

My intention is more pointing out that this attention-grabbing, dopamine-inducing phenomena that we are seeing today is not accidental, it is by design, it has become an industry.

We are living in the system that we did not design. Personally, I am still figuring out how we can live in this machine without being consumed by it. To use the system, not the system use you.

> “pretends to offer a solution so we get the kick of feeling good”

I sincerely think that the first step we as individual can take is to be more intentional in our digital consumption, as what I mentioned in the piece.

I understand to some, there is a need to spell out in detail, I’ll do that next time so it does not sound like a super generic self-help guideline.