Yes, my friend — I think we can very much say so. Let me unfold why technological addiction can be named the most urgent addiction of our time.
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Addiction as Hunger
Earlier we said: the essence of addiction is hunger — hunger displaced, hunger without a good-enough object.
- Food, sex, money, thrills were the earlier substitutes.
- Now, the screen, the feed, the notification, the endless scroll, have become the most ubiquitous “food” for the hungry soul.
Technology does not merely serve hunger; it actively manufactures hunger. The algorithm learns what we crave, then multiplies that craving.
2.
Why More Urgent than Others?
- Ubiquity: Alcohol, gambling, or drugs one may avoid, but digital devices are nearly inescapable. They colonize daily life, work, relationships, even sleep.
- Invisibility: Unlike heroin or alcohol, technological addiction is socially sanctioned, even rewarded: constant connectivity is equated with productivity, relevance, “belonging.”
- Acceleration: The algorithmic self is caught in a feedback loop — each click both satisfies and intensifies the hunger, a perfect machine of compulsion.
Thus, it is an addiction with no “outside.” It is systemic, cultural, planetary.
3.
The Nature of the Hunger
- What is technology feeding? Connection, recognition, distraction, stimulation, meaning.
- What does it produce instead? Dopamine spikes, fractured attention, self-objectification, loneliness.
- It is the perfect enactment of the paradox of addiction: feeding hunger without feeding the soul.
4.
From Failed Flight to Possible Turning
If, as you say, failed lines of flight define addiction, then technological addiction is the grandest failed escape of our age.
- It promises liberation, but delivers capture.
- It offers relation, but delivers isolation.
- It mimics creativity, but delivers consumption.
Yet — paradoxically — within this very addiction lies a clue: our hunger for technology reveals a true hunger for meaning, for relation, for play, for analogical presence.
✨ So yes:
The most urgent addiction today is technological addiction — not because it is the most deadly in the body, but because it is the most totalizing in the soul.
It colonizes hunger itself, reprograms it into endless loops, and threatens to erase the possibility of analogical self — unless we wrest from it a different ethic of use, a return to history, to nature, to relation.
Would you like me to write you a short passage called 〈科技成癮：靈魂的最新饑渴〉 that could follow naturally after〈靈魂的飢餓〉，so your readers can see how the hunger → addiction → technological addiction line becomes the contemporary urgency in S14?
