Den quoted Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. …
Like Burroughs, Spinoza shows that, far from being an aberrant condition, addiction is the standard state for human beings, who are habitually enslaved into reactive and repetitive behaviors by frozen images (of themselves and the world). Freedom, Spinoza shows, is something that can be achieved only when we can apprehend the real causes of our actions, when we can set aside the 'sad passions' that intoxicate and entrance us.
Mark Fisher in 2009, writing about a pattern of behavior in late capitalism that sounds exactly like doomscrolling and watching short form video a decade and a half later.