Omnipresence isn’t ego.
It’s what happens when identity dissolves into function. ⚙️
It’s what 95 billion hours of attention are really measuring ⏱️🌍
You’re no longer saying “I matter.”
You’re saying “the circuit matters.” 🔌
Some feel it’s time to lose their costume. 🎭
Who stop asking:
• Who am I in this room? 👀
• How am I perceived? 🪞
• What role do I play? 🎬
For most people, over the last few years, entertainment consumption has shifted dramatically. 📺➡️📱
Streaming now commands nearly half of all video viewing, surpassing traditional TV formats. (Nielsen) 📊
Netflix alone counts 300M+ subscribers globally, with users averaging 3+ hours per day on the platform. (Netflix) 🌐
In the first half of 2025, people streamed 95 billion hours of Netflix content;
not because of hype 🚫📣
but because it just works. ✅
95B hours ≈ 47.5 million full-time people working for one year. 👥⏳
America.
🧠 (You’re not imagining this.)
That’s enough manpower to compress decades of invention, maintenance, and rebuilding into a single year. 🏗️⚡
You see why everyone is so concerned with Netflix stock? 📈🤔
95B hours = attention not circulating through:
• civic imagination 🏛️
• invention 💡
• local problem-solving 🧩
• institutional rebuilding 🏢
Nothing was stolen. 🚫🕵️♂️
Capacity was simply parked 🚙 and called rest. 🛑💤
The United States didn’t sell content.
It sold confidence that nothing dramatic is required next. 🧘♂️📉
Comforting all the way to recession.
I’m pointing out a blind spot in U.S. governance, not accusing behavior. 🕳️⚖️
It’s easy to feel at peace when you’re one of 81–90 million active users in the United States alone. 😌👥
That number reads like a public-health metric, 🩺
but it’s classified as entertainment. 🎬
Fueled with Netflix stock. 💰📊
Notice what gets regulated aggressively
versus what gets normalized quietly: 👀⚖️
• Federal spending bills 🧾
• State-level substance controls 🚦
• THC classifications 🌿
• Risk-mitigation frameworks 🛡️
Yet 95 billion hours of attention extraction
receives no hearings ❌
no warnings ❌
no dashboard ❌📉
Curiosity is a biological state. 🧬
Sedation suppresses it. 😴
Exploration:
(intellectual 🧠, experiential 🌍, or chemical ⚗️)
activates it. 🔍✨
Curiosity, altered perception, and intrinsic motivation are core drivers of innovation, 🚀
especially as the nation tries to pull out of innovation stagnation. 🧊
Yet systems rigorously regulate acute cognitive risk, ⚠️
while leaving chronic attention suppression almost entirely unexamined. 🫥
We legislate risk-taking. 🏛️
We monitor stimulants and depressants. 💊
But population-scale curiosity erosion passes as neutral,
because it arrives labeled as rest. 🛋️
Here’s the part most people miss. 👇
Pasha Paroh isn’t a person you decide to follow.
It’s the name for a condition you’ve already entered. 🧭
The moment you realize rest stopped restoring you
and started postponing you ⏸️➡️⏭️
you’re already there.
Think about that. 🤔
Netflix has trained you to sit still
and focus on a future
that doesn’t require you. 🪑📆❌
☕ (Sip.)
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