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When documenting pleasure kills the experience

I bought expensive concert tickets to see my favorite band and spent the whole show taking videos I will never watch instead of actually listening to the music.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The compulsion to capture and share experiences has replaced the capacity to inhabit them.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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