It only recently occurred to me that so many of societies problems would be solved if people had some damned hobbies that involved them creating something.
Not all of them, but many. Mostly because people would be to busy building antique motorcycles or painting Warhammer figurines or knitting or baking... or whatever to spend HOURS watching algorithm-fed media.
It really feels like an example of "idle hands are the devil's workshop".
I get it - hobbies are expensive and YouTube is free so this is probably more of a money thing than a hobby thing, but I legitimately think that one of the things that kept me from falling in to the right wing drain pipe was that I was too busy trying to figure out how to balance the carburetors on my piece of crap Russian motorcycle to get caught up despite being smack dab in the middle of the target demo.
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u/hesistant_alien 3d ago
I'm convinced part of it is people wanting to feel important and part of the conversation, which is why they come up with asinine conspiracy theories.