We reach for our phones not merely out of habit, but out of existential dread. The silence. The stillness. The terrible weight of being alone with one's thoughts. We have made ourselves refugees from our own consciousness, fleeing into the digital realm where time dissolves, where the self-fragments into likes and comments, and where the infinite scroll provides the illusion of purpose.

When we are in silence and solitude, we have to face the "agonizing burden" of our own thoughts. That fear, which can be referred to as existential dread, drives us to seek instant escape through our phones. By doing so, we avoid the silence that deeply connects us with the core of ourselves which may feel frightening or even disturbing.

An escape from inner emptiness

We "flee" to the digital realm, where time seems to dissolve and self-identity is fragmented into "likes," "comments," and fast-paced content from an infinite scroll. Behind all the convenience and instant connection lies the illusion of purpose-when in fact, the experience is shallow and ephemeral. In this way, we move away from authentic contact with ourselves and the more complex and meaningful realities of the world.

The Digital World as a Substitute Illusion of Self

If you find yourself unable to sit with yourself in the quiet, if the silence feels unbearable, if the itch to check gnaws at you like a half-formed thought—then you must face the truth: you are no longer the master of your own attention. The world has already reached into you, has taken root inside your mind, and what you call your "self" is merely a thin layer wrapped around the endless hunger for distraction. Perhaps you never truly wake at all. Maybe you merely rise, check, scroll, perform, and disappear.

Never Truly Awake: The Digital Disappearance of Self

We pepper our days with these interactions, quick digital gestures that serve no real purpose other than to confirm that we still exist. And we do this endlessly. A reply. A like. A reaction. A thumbs-up to acknowledge a thumbs-up. A conversation about nothing stretched across days, punctuated by long silences and the occasional haha yeah. It is not communication; it is the pantomime of communication, the illusion of connection without the risk of depth.

Digital Pantomime: The Illusion of Connection

We believe we use the phone to connect, but more often, it is an escape hatch, a means of sidestepping true engagement, an ever-present excuse to be near each other without ever really being with each other.

The Digital Escape Hatch: Sidestepping True Engagement

We do not ask, What keeps you awake at night? We do not ask, What have you lost? We do not ask, What is it like to be you?No, instead we check in.

The Illusion of Caring: When Check-Ins Replace Deep Inquiry

The phone will not stop you. It does not care whether you reach for depth or settle for routine. It has no preference.But you should.

The Indifferent Phone: Choose Depth Over Routine

You do not need to see one more headline about political decay. You do not need to know immediately that a billionaire has once again purchased something they should not have. You do not need to read an anonymous comment that will enrage you before breakfast.But you do. You do, because some small, foolish part of you believes that if you just keep scrolling, keep reading, keep taking in more, you will find the piece of knowledge that fixes it all.You will not.

The Endless Scroll: Chasing a Cure That Will Never Come

In today’s hyper-connected world, our smartphones have become extensions of ourselves—ubiquitous companions that often hide a deeper struggle. This post delves into the paradox of digital dependence, where the relentless urge to check our devices isn’t simply a habit but a response to a profound inner void. It reflects on how our constant reach for distraction is less about seeking connection and more about escaping the overwhelming weight of silence and self-reflection.

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At the point, your job is:<ul><li>Remembering the facts of the original case</li><li>Figuring out wheter changing the facts changes the result of the new case scenario</li><li>Explaining the logical reasoning behind your answer</li></ul>

Our Task To Handle Professor's Socratic Question

After you finish a case, change the fact slightly, and then defend your argument for the same or different outcome. The more practice succesfully answering hypos at home, the more confident you'll feel about answering them in class.

Tips Prepare For Respond Hypos

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Reading each case twice: getting plenty of information out of them</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Color- coding tour highlights: you can do this by using pink for facts, blue for the issues, green for the rationale, and yellow for the court's holding</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Writing in the margin: write brief summary of each important point or significant fact in the margin of your casebook</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Taking the material one step further: has the Professor recommended any law review articles that you need to check out? Go to the library and look them up. Are any points in the reading unclear to you? Look them up in a study aid or treatise</li></ul>

How To Read Case

Participate everyday, don't miss many classes (usually four misses per semester is the maximum), and continuanlly ask thought-provoking question

How To Increase Grades

It required plenty of hard work, motivation, and discipline, not to mention firs-rate time management and study skills. A healthy sense of humor also helps out tremendously.

What Other Things That Need To Succesfull Law Student

- Avoiding distraction:<ul><li>Finding a quiet nook to work in</li><li>Making your study enviroment conductive to studying</li><li>Getting a spouse or friend to keep small children occupied for a portion of each night</li><li>Separating work and school</li></ul>- Making a priority list for every study session - Writing a start and stop time for studying on a piece of paper and keeping it handy - Avoid zoning out (daydreaming)

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The straightforward guide to surviving and thriving in law school Every year more than 40,000 students enter law school and at any given moment there are over 125,000 law school students in the United States. Law school’s highly pressurized, super-competitive atmosphere often leaves students stressed out and confused, especially in their first year. Balancing life and schoolwork, passing the bar, and landing a job are challenges that students often need help facing. In Law School For Dummies, former law school student Rebecca Fae Greene uses straight talk, sound advice, and gentle humor to help students sort through the swamp of coursework and focus on what’s important–all while maintaining a life. She also offers rare insight on the law school experience for women, minorities, non-traditional, and non-Ivy League students.

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The straightforward guide to surviving and thriving in law school Every year more than 40,000 students enter law school and at any given moment there are over 125,000 law school students in the United States. Law school’s highly pressurized, super-competitive atmosphere often leaves students stressed out and confused, especially in their first year. Balancing life and schoolwork, passing the bar, and landing a job are challenges that students often need help facing. In Law School For Dummies, former law school student Rebecca Fae Greene uses straight talk, sound advice, and gentle humor to help students sort through the swamp of coursework and focus on what’s important–all while maintaining a life. She also offers rare insight on the law school experience for women, minorities, non-traditional, and non-Ivy League students.

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Kafka's stories aren't just about annoying bureaucracy, they're about bureaucracy that is so soul-crushing and illogical that is goes well past tragedy and comes back around as comedy.

What is "Kafkaesque"

"What’s Kafkaesque... is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces."

Logic goes out the window in Kafka's writing. Or rather, the logic seems to be governed by some kind of snake-eats-tail, circular thinking.

Illogical in Kafkaesque

"You don't give up, you don't lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don’t stand a chance. That’s Kafkaesque."

Kafka's "due process" is always serpentine. Legal systems do not exist to serve justice, but to perpetuate themselves. In every circumstance, though, Kafka points out that we, the cogs in those machines, can be just as absurd and illogical as the machines themselves. Especially when we keep trying to fight the system with the system, following rules that make no sense to achieve goals we don't necessarily want.

Kafka Due Process

Kafka laments and lambastes absurd bureaucracy in all his work. But he also invites us to notice the absurd part of everyday life and to laugh at it—lest we keep perpetuating the absurdity ourselves

Laugh to Absurd Life

"Kafkaesque" means a system that has no vested interest in doing anything but keeping itself going, alienating everyone in the process.

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If you were to awake one morning and find yourself transformed into a giant insect, you might call the situation "Kafkaesque" (although it would probably be difficult for you to pronounce the word through your giant mandibles). You wouldn't be…

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