Tube/Consumer Economy Detox

[alice malice]

Walker appreciates the irony. His endless hours as an online superhero
left him physically weak, financially destitute, and so socially
isolated he could barely hold a face-to-face conversation. There may
also have been deeper effects. Studies suggest that heavy online
gaming alters brain structures involved in decision making and
self-control, much as drug and alcohol use do. Emotional development
can be delayed or derailed, leaving the player with a sense of self
that is incomplete, fragile, and socially disengaged—more id than
superego. Or as Hilarie Cash, reSTART cofounder and an expert in
online addiction, tells me, “We end up being controlled by our
impulses.”

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