Passive living didn’t arrive with force.
It arrived with assistance.
Recommendations replaced decisions. Defaults replaced discernment. Smart systems promised ease — and quietly trained people to stop choosing altogether.
When navigation tells you where to go, platforms tell you what to watch, and algorithms decide what matters, agency erodes without protest. Life becomes reactive instead of intentional. Comfort becomes compliance.
Passive living isn’t laziness.
It’s conditioning.
The more systems decide for us, the harder it becomes to remember how to decide at all. Autonomy isn’t taken — it’s surrendered, one convenience at a time.
The danger isn’t that systems exist.
It’s that people forget they can live without permission.
👉 Full article / source link: The Atlantic — “The Age of Automation Is Making Us Passive”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/automation-passivity/620045/—
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