Some of the reading which I’m doing nowadays, feels like porn - intellectual porn. I am enjoying it too much and it’s distracting me from getting actual work done (self-directed work cause I’m unemployed rn). Somebody please tell me it’s not that. Well it probably is. It isn’t getting me anywhere. But does anything that doesn’t get you anywhere but you enjoy doing should be categorized as porn. It has a lot of similarities to porn though:
- It’s available at the tap of a few fingers.
- It tingles some part of my brain
- Every essay I read is littered with dozens of hyperlinks to other ones, each sucking you deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.
One quality that differentiated it from porn is that it didn’t make me feel like shit after consuming it. But today’s the first day I’m feeling wary of the effects this voracious reading is having on me.