The 'what comes first' situation with regards to laziness and nihilism is changeable. I think often people that are very interested become nihilistic in some ways (there were shades of this in the original post), mostly because they feel fed up with what seems like a hopeless situation - this has nothing to do with being lazy, but can lead to it, through the refusal to do nothing, because it seems hopeless. On the other hand nihilism can be a comfortable place for people who aren't interested and lead to laziness.
All in all setting a cause and effect order was not my intention. These things have a way of acting on each other in a mutitude of ways...I do think that Disenchantment on a large scale is part of the root of many of these problems.
Habitual anything is a time sucker for sure...and can encourage the apathy. However it is possible to do anything intelligently (i.e. consious and aware), even watch TV. Most of us enjoy films, I'm sure and TV can be 'art' as well, depending on it's quality and method of consumption. Personally I don't watch TV. I don't have the time, and like you, I'm not really interested. However I have watched 'Lost' in the past and have friends that do as well. I'd say that it's quality as far as television goes - which is mostly awful - and is something that encourages a certain level of thinking that most TV does not. I just thought that the popular consumption of this show, and peoples reaction to it, had some parallels with your video game example. It wasn't really connected to the bulk of the post.
Ultimately, you're right. No one is asking to get raped. But people are willfully ignorant in many ways - also because of a myriad of other cultural reasons - and in a sense welcome, or at the very least, make it easy to be taken in. Most people are actually OK with it. I'm really bothered with commercials myself, and not just on TV, I find them often insulting and deeply reflective of alot of the current societal trouble we have here. However, because I'm aware of this, I feel I don't get taken in and mentally raped by commercials. My awareness, could even be said to be able to let me see through them. Like I said, it's possible to do anything intelligently, and provided it's meaningful to a degree, it can even be beneficial. The example of high pregnancy rates vs. eduction level is apt.
dmitridb:
The 'what comes first' situation with regards to laziness and nihilism is changeable. I think often people that are very interested become nihilistic in some ways (there were shades of this in the original post), mostly because they feel fed up with what seems like a hopeless situation - this has nothing to do with being lazy, but can lead to it, through the refusal to do nothing, because it seems hopeless. On the other hand nihilism can be a comfortable place for people who aren't interested and lead to laziness.
All in all setting a cause and effect order was not my intention. These things have a way of acting on each other in a mutitude of ways...I do think that Disenchantment on a large scale is part of the root of many of these problems.
Habitual anything is a time sucker for sure...and can encourage the apathy. However it is possible to do anything intelligently (i.e. consious and aware), even watch TV. Most of us enjoy films, I'm sure and TV can be 'art' as well, depending on it's quality and method of consumption. Personally I don't watch TV. I don't have the time, and like you, I'm not really interested. However I have watched 'Lost' in the past and have friends that do as well. I'd say that it's quality as far as television goes - which is mostly awful - and is something that encourages a certain level of thinking that most TV does not. I just thought that the popular consumption of this show, and peoples reaction to it, had some parallels with your video game example. It wasn't really connected to the bulk of the post.
Ultimately, you're right. No one is asking to get raped. But people are willfully ignorant in many ways - also because of a myriad of other cultural reasons - and in a sense welcome, or at the very least, make it easy to be taken in. Most people are actually OK with it. I'm really bothered with commercials myself, and not just on TV, I find them often insulting and deeply reflective of alot of the current societal trouble we have here. However, because I'm aware of this, I feel I don't get taken in and mentally raped by commercials. My awareness, could even be said to be able to let me see through them. Like I said, it's possible to do anything intelligently, and provided it's meaningful to a degree, it can even be beneficial. The example of high pregnancy rates vs. eduction level is apt.