By Edo Segal
The trap I did not see was the one I was enjoying.
Not the compulsion — I described that in *You On AI*. The midnight sessions, the inability to stop, the exhilaration curdling into something grimmer. I named that. I diagnosed it. I even proposed remedies: dams, attentional ecology, structured pauses. I was proud of the diagnosis. That pride should have been the warning.
Slavoj Žižek showed me why.
Žižek is a philosopher who has spent forty years asking a question most of us skip past: What if knowing the problem changes nothing? What if the diagnosis itself becomes part of the disease? What if the builder who confesses his complicity — who writes honestly about productive addiction, who acknowledges the costs, who proposes
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