Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours agoNot a guy, but why would I ever do a “music” detox? Why is “music” in quotes? What else would I be listening to?
And what would I do such a thing for?
Turn my grocery shopping into a drag instead of a moment to enjoy and kind of a highlight of the day at times?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
If listening to birds chirping and wind blowing through trees while you’re out for a walk is “no stimuli” you have a problem.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Then so does most everyone. It’s one thing to be “out for a walk” with the purpose of a walk, like in the forest or a park, but it’s a whole other thing to be walking for groceries and day after day just zoning out into the same things over and over. That’s insanity.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
That’s, erm, life m8.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I’m sorry for you if that’s what life is to you, it’s no wonder mental health issues are common amongst folks these days, the dead eyes and blank stares drooling off into nothingness, eyes wide open, yet seeing nothing, “living in the moment”, yet feeling dead inside. I pity you, little man.
The world is there to be discovered, you just need agency to go and get it, everything is literally at your fingertips, arts, history, geography, literature, science, philosophy, film, games etc.
Music is one way to engage with the arts even while your other senses must be occupied with the chores on procurement of resources that our meat shells sadly require for the foreseeable future.
But the good news is, It’s why we as a species invented entertainment at all.