>>14345988I've been told I have ADHD by multiple (3) professionals but I've always thought it was either a lazy diagnosis or they were just like: "you want the drugs? Okay you have ADHD."
Like others have said, it's more of a societal problem than a you problem.
Most people have no true idea how disenfranchised they are and how little agency they actually have. This state of affairs may have been normal in Europe for a long time (idk), but in America, up until around the gilded age, we had seemingly unlimited Free Real Estate. You could go and establish a settlement on some land, and every day you worked, you worked for yourself. The things you did on a day to day basis contributed to your continuing survival and that of your children. (And of course you had to coordinate your children in work as well).
Contrast to today in which most people own very little, most people are renters, and your opportunity toward class mobility is severely limited. You put in your hours, you get your wage, and you continue to exist. Your progress in life is not actually connected to the work you put in as it used to be. So what do we do with the time we don't spend working? We decompress. We relax. We browse the internet, scroll our phones, etc. Most people don't want to sit and read something because they want the quick fix. And of course there's FOMO - we're all in the same situation, so we don't want to miss what could be tomorrow's water cooler talk. So we all get on 4chan, reddit, twitter, tiktok, instagram, whatever the fuck.
And we condition ourselves doing that stuff. Tiktok is one of the worst so far. They've really cut down the effort:reward ratio to a razor-thin margin. Not much can compete with that - except porn of course, which we also consume in massive quantities.
It's not exactly weakness. People have great potential. They can be reconditioned. But it won't happen without actual agency, actual resources, actual political power.
The rich don't have ADHD.
