"A fter reading that Selena Gomez looked ethereal in a custom Ralph Lauren wedding dress, that the Vitamix 5200 is a legend for a reason, and that scientists made a yogurt using ants, I feel sufficiently bad about myself because of how much time I have spent staring at inconsequential words and meaningless images on my little screen that I transition to the big screen that is my laptop."
"Enter cozy lit, an import from Japan and Korea that prioritizes feeling over meaning, setting over structure, and texture over depth. The stories are gentle and warm, temporarily eliminating the friction of contemporary life. I'm not convinced they're antidotes to the internet so much as replication of its hypnotic passivity. They are more akin to digital content than we know."
A Sunday afternoon is presented as a diary of digital addiction, shifting between celebrity gossip, product reviews, political news and social updates until exhaustion returns the subject to the phone. Average smartphone use in Canada totals about seventy days per year. A lifelong love of books exists but suffers when phone time displaces bedtime reading. Cozy lit emerged from Japan and Korea, privileging feeling, setting and texture over narrative meaning or structure. Cozy lit’s gentle, warm stories temporarily eliminate life’s friction while mirroring the internet’s hypnotic passivity, aligning more with digital content than with a remedy.
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