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Hello everyone. This is Kromanyonits. This is Kruk podcast number 73. Autumn is here, which means it's time to talk. I hope you are doing well. Summer has passed, and I hope you didn't stay locked up at home within four walls.
Exploring the negative effects of gooning and porn addiction on perception, mental health, and life enjoyment in the digital age.
Key Takeaways
- Excessive consumption of hyper-stimulating content like pornography dulls sensory perception and mental clarity.
- Gooning and edging can lead to neurotic behavior and fragmented thinking, impairing real-world interactions.
- Pornography promotes quick gratification, disrupting natural sexual and emotional processes.
- Media consumption shapes worldview and perception, necessitating media hygiene and critical awareness.
- Escaping the cycle of addiction requires recognizing its impact on mental health and actively seeking healthier engagement with life.
What the video covers
- The video discusses how sensory perception, especially vision, is heavily influenced by modern media consumption.
- It introduces the concept of 'gooning'—an intense, trance-like engagement with pornographic content—and its psychological effects.
- Pornography is described as hyper-stimulating content that dulls the prefrontal cortex, leading to fragmented thinking and neurotic behavior.
- The speaker links prolonged porn use and gooning to symptoms resembling schizophrenia and emotional manipulation.
- Pornography's quick gratification undermines natural sexual processes and dulls real-life pleasures, making everyday experiences seem gray.
- The video highlights the importance of media hygiene and awareness of how media shapes perception and mental health.
- It warns about the dangers of becoming emotionally dependent on artificial stimulation and losing connection with reality.
- The speaker shares personal reflections on how excessive porn consumption affected his ability to appreciate beauty and life.
- The discussion touches on the cultural environment and how lack of vibrant surroundings can drive people toward hyper-stimulating media.
- The video calls for constant dialogue about sensory influence and addiction to better understand and combat these issues.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Setting the Topic
- 01:40What is Gooning? Reading from Celine
- 03:22Sensory Perception and Media Influence
- 04:59Psychological Effects of Edging and Gooning
- 06:23Emotional Manipulation and Neuroticism
- 07:47Hyper-Stimulation and Its Impact on Senses
- 09:19Personal Reflections on Life and Pleasure
- 10:57Media Manipulation and False Perceptions
- 12:44Memory, Humanity, and Media Hygiene
- 13:59Conclusion: Awareness and Interaction with Reality
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But if you are an enlightened person and you needed to stay inside to spark a new revolution in intellectual thought, you still made a mistake, because you need to go outside. All this time, I’ve been thinking how to
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twist things to discuss a pressing topic again, specifically about not touching yourself when you see certain shapes on your 4K screen created by pixels—whether it's a MiniLED, OLED, or LED screen—or perhaps you’ve read McLuhan and decided to watch all your content on old TVs, like CRTs for
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instance. Something like a Sony Trinitron. Whatever you choose, I think we can all agree that the eye, vision, watching, and contemplating play a huge role in our lives. It is one of our most important senses, especially in the era of screens and smartphones. And you have to understand that today,
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people love to rev up their nervous systems by watching specific content that provides very intense stimulation.
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It’s not for nothing that people invented an entertaining hobby, which on the internet is called gooning. But today we won’t exactly be talking about the phenomenon of goonism or what a gooner is. Although we could, why not? Let me read you something Celine wrote in his book, Death on Credit.
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Okay, found it. Reading. Gooners are always like that. First, they enjoy themselves to the fullest, contemplating, and then, when the deed is done, they start to feel indignant.
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I think many will be able to recognize themselves here, in how they feel after they have contemplated certain things and finished that very deed. But unfortunately, such is the culture today and such is the totality of media that gooners—how I hate that word—are in the majority, because that is
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how our interaction with this world works, especially for a person who doesn't have the most vibrant space. In the place where they live, little happens, little grows or flourishes; there is only concrete and dirt all around. And of course, one wants to observe something more optimistic, even
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if it is fake. Although, on the other hand, if you think about some Asian or Eastern countries, the views there are decent, yet everyone is still glued to those phones of yours. Interesting, very interesting. Anyway, whatever the reason may be, the totality of media, guys, the prism of perception through a
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little phone, it does influence us after all. That is precisely why today I will once again talk to you about how our sensory organs interact with objects of perception and how that influences our perception. In my opinion, this needs to be discussed constantly if you are dealing with porn
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addiction, because all these "superpowers"—the idea that you’ll have more testosterone, which is basically marketing—are interesting, but they lead nowhere. You need to understand the essence of this whole thing. Whatever you contemplate influences you and constructs your mind.
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It is the same as the specific erudition they try to stuff you with.
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If I were to implant, for example, a communist worldview in your head, a certain pseudo-environment using various terminologies, you would then perceive the world through that lens. The same thing happens when you watch certain stimulating—or rather, hyper-stimulating—content. And the
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most hyper-stimulating content available on the internet today, which is very easy to access, is, of course, pornographic content, because it simply shuts off your prefrontal cortex and your filtering, making it easy to feed you any information or messages and suppress your consciousness. If you
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engage in edging or gooning, you will gradually become fragmented and find yourself on the verge of schizophrenia.
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You simply won't be able to perceive the world linearly because your senses will be so dulled that, while you may seem to be in this world, in this existence, interacting with people, you will actually be as if you were in a
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dream, like a sleepwalker. Because a person is a neurotic, and pornography—prolonged viewing of porn—makes you a neurotic. A man who is very prone to lust is, more often than not, neurotic. You can notice this; you can look at the people who watch sexologists. I am speaking specifically
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about the male gender in particular. They most often evoke rather mixed feelings. They are very neurotic. And a neurotic, often while interacting with the world, may seem like they are conscious, but in reality, this person has no consistency in their head, because it is very easy to shake them.
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They can have various episodes, and a man who is a "gooner" is most often hysterical, but at the same time, they are very easy to manipulate—manipulated through intense emotions.
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Therefore, these are often people who pine after certain women who evoke specific feelings. And this always looks pathetic from the outside, although each of us has most likely either been through it or is still pining after such women. Well, in general, it is a vicious cycle that is
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best not to keep in your life for long, and you should try to get out of it.
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The most interesting thing is that all our feelings do not perceive the world objectively. They don't work at 100%. Let's put it this way. You can see, yet you are still blind in a sense. You can hear, yet you are still deaf. And
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through technology, man tries, of course, to expand his senses. Every average Joe knows what is happening all over the world. He follows the news and monitors it. In a word, he monitors. Monitoring is happening, people are thinking. I personally believe that your luck in this life, charm, energy,
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and all that comes from how well you can feel this life. Some would call it harmony. Well, so that everything somehow adds up and you can sort things out in your head. But when your senses become dulled, and they dull not
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because you start to get really hyped up, your nervous system I mean, and over-saturate certain senses. Most often, it is just one sense. That is, you might listen to hardcore music, for example, or you might watch pornography. And you need to understand that pornography, even if we take sexuality
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as such, it does not consider the process of sexuality. In general, there is gradual arousal, all this foreplay and the like. No, the goal of pornography is to bring you to orgasm as quickly as possible, so that you
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just immediately fall into a hypnotic state. A very small number of people, I assume, watch adult films for the plot, or that they watch the whole video, yes, the forty-minute one, that they look closely at every scene. No, you clicked
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here, watched a bit, watched this position, then that position, and seemingly finished the business. Or you try to stretch this state, again, using gooning, because we all understand, this trance state simply, well, immerses you in a certain environment that just brings you pleasure. And a
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nervous person who is already hooked on all this, well, falls into a certain trap from which it is very difficult to get out, and it becomes a certain coping defense mechanism. And that is how their senses get dulled. In real
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life, nothing else brings pleasure. Everything seems gray. I'm telling you even from my own experience, I lived in quite beautiful places. I had beautiful sunsets there. I saw the ocean every day. But if you watch a lot of adult
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movies, it doesn't matter. You cannot enjoy this ataraxia, right? You can only take Atarax. And for me, a person who, I like to believe, looks at life poetically, I cannot accept a mechanical perception of life, having a creative streak. I am constantly in search of the beautiful, of some
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interesting associations. And I have a certain male narcissism. Let’s call it that. Ah, male narcissism, in case anyone doesn’t know. Damn, I hate that word. I hope I’ll soon find a normal, non-schizo replacement for all of this. But male narcissism.
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people into my world; I can do it through content, I can do it just through my own oratory skills, and so on. It’s a kind of penetration into the minds of others. It’s a piercing action. But when they start piercing me
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, when I start to completely fragment and a hole starts to appear in my stomach that resembles a female sexual organ. If you’ve seen the film Videodrome, you know what I’m talking about, then I become a very fertile
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person who is being filled with certain messages. A false antagonism emerges, that these people are bad, those are good. A completely false prism of perception appears, which does not interact with my life experience at all . I just become a dummy who is very easy to manipulate. And you will never
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reach the state of an adult person who has their own specific principles and moral foundations because they, through their own experience, have adopted such —I wanted to say creeds—but it depends on the person. Well, you understand me, you develop certain ethical and moral foundations. And most
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importantly, I cannot perceive life fully. Music starts to sound worse. Even games, video games, which are designed to stimulate you after a burnout, after long-term pornography consumption, don't bring any pleasure.
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Well, at most you can probably play some dopamine-loop games, but I’ve never played them, and I’ve never been hooked by them. But still, the scariest thing is that life stops bringing pleasure. The most you will get pleasure from are over-stimulating, right on the edge of over-stimulating,
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things. And that’s when your disintegration as an individual begins. Even a certain lifestyle, which is commonly called cuckoldry, stems from this, because observation...you can relax and watch how the person you supposedly love gets pleasure, and you will actually get, most likely, quite
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strong pleasure from that fact, but later you will not feel very good. Any person who tries to abstain, and manages to do it for a certain time, if they are not just a marginal brute who only sits on the internet, but at the
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same time isn't watching videos here, they will notice that life starts to play with other colors, they become brighter. And when the flatline passes and you become increasingly aware of your situation—which, by the way, isn't always a positive state—you might also realize what a mess you’re
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actually in. Therefore, it’s a double-edged sword. You may start noticing more beauty in life, but if you’re not in the best situation, you’ll want to return to that state of gooning because everything there is more or less simple and easy. But for me, the dulling of my perception of
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this world was a huge problem. I get no pleasure from being in any kind of environment. That is—I don't even know what could be worse than that. If you are a creative person, if you are someone who wants to perceive the world
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on your own terms, then you need to abstain. This applies to everything, every single aspect of your life. It was terrible to realize that with every relapse, I would forget what I had recently read or what I had recently
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watched. And we return to the neurotic. The neurotic often forgets what they experienced or what they were told. They have actual memory lapses. And such a person cannot interact with the world normally as a human because they are losing their humanity. Even though a neurotic person might seem sweet or
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attractive in a certain context, they don't become any more human because of it. It would seem that today these elevated emotions are accessible to the masses. You can go to the philharmonic, you can watch a good movie, and so on.
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But the world is changing, and a person who has no self-control, who is burdened in spirit and makes no attempt to preserve themselves, won't be able to truly feel anything, no matter what you show them. They will only be able
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to feel the slop that provides emotions here and now. There will be no good prelude. In order to get truly good emotions, a prelude is still necessary; you need to warm yourself up a little. But this isn't that kind of podcast,
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and we won't talk about that. Still, you will just be tossed around; your life will look just like the audio waveform of this podcast, where everything looks like spikes you’re sitting on. Well, those who get it, get it. Today, it is more important than ever to keep track of these things. You
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need a certain level of media hygiene. You need to understand how certain media manipulations affect you. Because if you don’t manage this, with the development of artificial intelligence, you will end up in a very bad position.
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And as I already said, you won't even be able to properly enjoy what technological progress has to offer.
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You will just be a puppet, a servomechanism being controlled: look here, look there. And honestly, there really isn't any kick to be had from this at all. It's worth remembering that life today is built on a certain kind of violence, primarily psychological, because there's just no
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way around it. And in big cities, you especially feel like a drum pulled tight. A crumb could fall on you, and you would definitely feel it. If you go soft and start fraying your nervous system in ways that aren't necessary,
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you’re simply destroying your own future. You won't even be able to take advantage of technological progress, as I’ve noted, but you also won't be able to use the opportunities provided to you in a big city, for example, because you can actually get something out of it—your travels to these
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global cities—but for that, you need to be on alert, communicating and interacting with the world. If you are in your cave with a 4K monitor, then it's unlikely anything will work out for you. When I often watched all those
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adult videos, I noticed that my dreams would disappear. It was as if my conscious and subconscious were being completely destroyed. They weren't communicating with each other at all.
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There are no dreams, no realization of any kind, nothing at all that is considered, in quotes, "conscious." You don’t process your experiences in any way, and you don’t even want to do anything anymore. You won’t be able to notice the opportunities happening around you, and you won’t be able to
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notice the beautiful things. That is exactly why the biggest harm from pornography is that you can't perceive anything normally. You make your already limited senses even more restricted. The beautiful things that are right next to you will not be accessible to you. You could go outside
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and actually notice them after all. But you might notice something beautiful, for example, on social media—like the city of Dubai. Although, it seems Dubai doesn't really have that aura and perception of being a great place anymore. Though, maybe it still does.
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To be honest, I don't follow it, but you will still look at certain things through a simulation, through a simulator, staged in a certain way, with the contrast specifically tuned, saturation added, and it all seems fine , and you’ll want to go there. And when you arrive, it will just be an
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ordinary place again, because that level of contrast isn't there. Although , who knows, maybe Meta will release new glasses where you can add filters to reality. Then maybe things won't be so bad after all. Anyway, let's sum it
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up. Right now, I ate the leftover shoti bread from yesterday with adjika. That's the first thing. Second, if you are a creative person, remember that watching pornography causes huge problems for your perception, your imagination, and your unconscious. Call it what you want, but your imagination
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will definitely suffer from the fact that you watch pornography. Thank you for listening to this podcast. Try to perceive this world while you are still able to do so. Bye.
Topics:gooningporn addictionsensory perceptionmental healthmedia influenceneurosisdigital addictionpornography effectsmedia hygienepsychology
