{"id":1783570,"date":"2022-12-22T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783570"},"modified":"2022-12-22T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:17:34","slug":"want-to-cure-your-screen-addiction-form-a-luddite-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/want-to-cure-your-screen-addiction-form-a-luddite-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Cure Your Screen Addiction? Form A Luddite Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwant-to-cure-your-screen-addiction-form-a-luddite-club%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783570&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the end of year approaches, now is the time to come up with New Year\u2019s resolutions to make 2023 a better year. And while there are the usual resolutions to lose weight, read more, and cut down on bad habits, one resolution everyone can make is getting off their screens. However, the trick to making this work is to do this as a community, not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, one group that\u2019s leading the charge on this effort happens to be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2022.12.16-115830\/https:\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/15\/style\/teens-social-media.html#selection-1145.103-1149.55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teenagers in New York City<\/a>. In an ultimate act of rebellion, Logan Lane decided to found the Luddite Club at her high school, an organization devoted to the screen-free life. Instead of constantly huddling over their phones like their peers, members of the Luddite Club can be seen in the park, drawing, watercoloring, meditating, and reading classic books.<\/p>\n<p>During meetings, and presumably most of the day, many of them either put their iPhones out of reach or use a flip phone. In other words, they live like teenagers did in the past. They have deep conversations with one another, have hobbies, and spend much of their time distinguishing themselves from the rest of their classmates. For those of us who grew up without a smartphone or a high-speed internet connection, much of what Logan and her friends talk about will sound very similar to the types of conversations we had at that age.<\/p>\n<p> Less Depression, More Individuality <\/p>\n<p>Besides rekindling a bit of nostalgia, what the Luddite Club demonstrates is just how much screen attachment has alienated people from one another as well as squelched any genuine individuality. Logan relates how she became addicted to her phone during the Covid shutdowns: \u201cI had this online personality of, \u2018I don\u2019t care,\u2019 but I actually did. I was definitely still watching everything.\u201d Other members of the club report the same, reevaluating their relationships and their own personalities in the context of physical reality instead of virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also encouraging to see the reduction of depression and anxiety when one cuts the cord. Members of the Luddite Club reported feeling happier and liberated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/news\/smartphone-free-students-franciscan-sees-benefits-of-unplugged-scholarship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Students on the \u201cUnplugged Scholarship\u201d<\/a> at Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Ohio, say they have personally benefited from ditching their smartphones. They feel freed from the constant peer pressure of social media and the crippling obsession to check their phones every minute.<\/p>\n<p> Benefits of a Group <\/p>\n<p>That said, considering that the \u201cunplugged,\u201d \u201cLuddite\u201d lifestyle was the norm not so long ago, some might question the decision to create a scholarship, much less form an official club to bring about a societal change in attitude. Even if screen addiction has become widespread enough to require serious intervention (as I argue <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/would-you-ditch-your-smartphone-for-money-new-scholarship-bets-students-will-heres-why-its-a-great-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>), shouldn\u2019t this just be a choice made by the individual \u2014 at least when it comes to adults? Is this really a founding principle or framework for an organization or one\u2019s identity?<\/p>\n<p>According to the popular self-help book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40121378-atomic-habits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atomic Habits<\/a>\u201d by James Clear, this is precisely how one should approach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One New Year&#8217;s resolution everyone can make is to get off their screens, but there&#8217;s a trick: Do it as a community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1783573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6962,11110,6844,7102,6919,8026,11111,5351,4513,6010],"class_list":["post-1783570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-the","tag-addiction","tag-club","tag-cure","tag-federalist","tag-form","tag-luddite","tag-screen","tag-want","tag-your"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}