The people who can’t sit through a quiet evening without reaching for their phone aren’t addicted to scrolling, they’re avoiding the specific moment when the day’s unprocessed thoughts arrive in the absence of distraction
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The behaviour is so common it has become invisible: the reach for the phone before the silence has even fully arrived. The standard explanation (dopamine, attention economy, infinite feeds engineered to hijack the reward system) locates the cause in the device and absolves the user, which is part of why the explanation is so popular. It is also, one might argue, incomplete in a way that matters. The phone is not the addiction; the phone is the escape vehicle, and what is being escaped is a speci
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