The "Distracted consciousness" differs from the Marxist idea of "false consciousness" in as much as the individual suffering from this state of distraction is no longer fully aware of life around them: they have become a human doing, no longer a human being.
Excerpt taken from 'The Girl with No Mobile Phone', by author Tom Conrad.
“The girl with no mobile phone had never herself seen fit to buy a mobile phone (in all her life) – being not only against them as invaders of privacy, but moreover, viewing mobile phones as symbols of the wider “distracted consciousness”: a curse now plaguing mankind far and wide. In fact, the girl with no mobile phone constantly witnessed many of her peers fingering away (not the good sort of fingering, either), just another distracted soul startled by the desperateness of existence, looking to fill every single waking and terrifying moment of their life with some pointless textual distraction, instead of just confronting and embracing the stillness, just taking a moment to actually think, reflect and be a human being, not a human doing.”
Alternative use:
‘Like OMFG, dude had been playing GTA5 for five days straight before he got up, left his apartment and tried to jack a car by throwing a musical triangle at them.’
‘A musical triangle?’
‘Yeah the thing that goes ding.’
‘Shit, that dude is distracted.’
‘No shit, he's suffering from the distracted consciousness!’
“The girl with no mobile phone had never herself seen fit to buy a mobile phone (in all her life) – being not only against them as invaders of privacy, but moreover, viewing mobile phones as symbols of the wider “distracted consciousness”: a curse now plaguing mankind far and wide. In fact, the girl with no mobile phone constantly witnessed many of her peers fingering away (not the good sort of fingering, either), just another distracted soul startled by the desperateness of existence, looking to fill every single waking and terrifying moment of their life with some pointless textual distraction, instead of just confronting and embracing the stillness, just taking a moment to actually think, reflect and be a human being, not a human doing.”
Alternative use:
‘Like OMFG, dude had been playing GTA5 for five days straight before he got up, left his apartment and tried to jack a car by throwing a musical triangle at them.’
‘A musical triangle?’
‘Yeah the thing that goes ding.’
‘Shit, that dude is distracted.’
‘No shit, he's suffering from the distracted consciousness!’
by Tom Conrad October 8, 2013
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Used to describe someone who is dealing with a lot of emotional turmoil and cannot focus on the correct path enough to follow it.
She cannot call me to tell me she misses me because she is distracted with problems in the real world.
by Ereck Flowers February 28, 2015
Get the Distracted mug.A literal distraction. Best sent by texts or IM's for best. It makes whoever gets distracted feel like a tool, or smile. both are common emotions. Best used when you're playing an online game with someone and you text them, distracting them from whatever you're doing.
hell, you could even distract them from being distracted, the possibilities are endless.
hell, you could even distract them from being distracted, the possibilities are endless.
Person 1: baking cookies
Person 2 : *text* DISTRACTION!
Person 1: *text* you dirty whore i was baking cook-
Person 2: *text* DISTRACTION!
Person 1: *text* YOU DICK I WAS TEXTING YOU BACK AS TO HOW YOU DISTRACTED ME FROM MAKING COOKIES
Person 2: *text* Your cookies are burning.
*cookies are on fire*
Person 2 : *text* DISTRACTION!
Person 1: *text* you dirty whore i was baking cook-
Person 2: *text* DISTRACTION!
Person 1: *text* YOU DICK I WAS TEXTING YOU BACK AS TO HOW YOU DISTRACTED ME FROM MAKING COOKIES
Person 2: *text* Your cookies are burning.
*cookies are on fire*
by Paddy O'Mally May 7, 2009
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"I was so distractivated at work today, I had the perfect idea for Rhys's birthday"
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"I was so distractivated at work today, I had the perfect idea for Rhys's birthday"
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It worked, Dudley couldnt think of any good words, and Joni won the game.
It worked, Dudley couldnt think of any good words, and Joni won the game.
by drzygote January 18, 2009
Get the distractic mug.The act of rubbing one out and fantasizing. During your fantasy, you doze off and think about other things.
I was jerking it to Layla but I proceeded to enter into Distracturbation and started thinking about my credit score and Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai."
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