Like this - the full disc metaphor seems right. I often refer to down time as defragmentation which, thinking about it, is super era-specific geekery www.nytimes.com/2024/09/28/b...
If we can’t remember the things we read and watch and even loved, do they still “count”?
I used “defragging” for the same reason. I envision the different colors of blocks re-arranging themselves in my brain. Red with red, blue with blue, . . . Hoping that at the end there’s still some space left.
God I miss watching the defrag screen with all the little colored squares
I think part of it is that there's much more content than there used to be, and it's presented in a way that encourages us to engage with it ephemerally. Streaming services, loads of choices, press play, the algorithm serves up something new when the current thing is over. All of it floats by.