Part of our culture that scares me is the need to document everything. Like film it or capture it. 

I know I’m writing this on a documentation channel. But why does this scare me so much?

It probably scares you because it's a natural urge to resist something even more terrifying: a world where everything (including ourselves) is transient.

Sam Kriss wrote (brilliantly) about this just the other day. Screenshot comes from his essay:

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Yes in between moment anxiety is very real. She put this so well.

It probably scares you because it's a natural urge to resist something even more terrifying: a world where everything (including ourselves) is transient.

Sam Kriss wrote (brilliantly) about this just the other day. Screenshot comes from his essay:
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/how-to-live-without-your-phone

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Dopamine makes sense to me personally because I struggle with that myself.

Do you think this has always been the case?

I feel like it’s surveillance capitalism combined with the human obsession with living forever. Probably likes (dopamine) too.

Yeah I waver on this honestly. I think it can be artistic but also… can harm the present-ness of the moment.

This gets discussed in photography circles: Does shooting photos put you in or take you out of the moment? I concluded it does take me out of the happenings of the moment, but if I’m shooting for hire, that’s okay. And I can still be in “the moment” doing so, it’s just not the same moment as everyone else.

I noticed this in myself a while back and now consciously fight the urge. Documenting is often a way to try and hold on to things, even/especially fleeting moments, and there’s something manic and stressful about doing so.

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i'm borrowing from lewis here. he pointed out that when we stop to examine something about ourselves, we're observing a past state because we have to leave that state to enter into observation mode. 

ergo when you go from "i'm at the beach with friends" to "let me take pictures," you exit the moment in a sense.

1000 $degen. I think there’s something to it. There’s a fomo about not having that picture

perhaps because we stop living when we start documenting.