Sucked into the vortex

Sucked into the vortex:

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Sucked into the vortex.

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It’s so easy.

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So easy to be sucked into the matrix.

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To scroll through videos.

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To scroll through reels.

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To scroll through your feed.

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So easy.

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So second nature.

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So meaningless.

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They’ve made it so easy.

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Billions of dollars and the best psychologists on the planet.

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Designed to keep you on.

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To keep you engaged.

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To keep you hooked.

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Like a drug addict.

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Like a gambling addict.

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Like a sex addict.

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The same dopaminergic pathway.

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Constantly hitting the pleasure centre of your brain.

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Using your brain wiring against you.

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They know how this works.

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Keep you on the app.

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Keep your eyeballs on screen.

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Keep your attention engaged.

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So they can sell you something.

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So they can manipulate your mind.

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So they can show you the world you want to see.

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That’s all our algorithm is.

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What we want to see of the world spitted back at us.

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The shock factor.

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The weird shit.

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The negativity and lies.

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Showing you what you want to see

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Showing you what you want to believe.

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Showing you a distorted view of the world.

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The world doesn’t exist on your screen.

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It exists in front of you.

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Directly in front of you.

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Savour that time.

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Learn to stop and appreciate it.

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Time is your most important asset.

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And all of us waste so much of it every day.

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We don’t know how long we’re here.

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We don’t know how long we’ll be in the spots we’re in.

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We don’t know how long we have till everything changes.

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And yet we continue to waste our time.

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We continue to let the world go by.

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We continue to let our dreams die by our inaction.

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We continue to watch the life we want be lost to history.

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Why?

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Because of these apps.

Because of these phones.

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Because of these devices.

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Be careful.

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The vortex is so easy to be sucked in.

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Don’t let it control you.

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