TBH dude most of our culture, including/especially the youth, are immersed in so much entertainment that we are all addicts of something or other. Gaming, the internet, television...pick your poison.
I'm 22 and I grew up bouncing around a lot of social groups in my younger days before I found a more likeminded crew, and the one thing they all had in common was addiction to trivial entertainment.
I mean, everyone I know is like that, from age 12 to age 75. It's work, go home, watch tv/play videogames/chill on the internet, go to bed, go to work, etc etc etc.
That's sort of how shit is designed in our society, frankly. You work more to buy more expensive and elaborate ways to indulge in your entertainment. You want that flatscreen? Put in some extra hours at the office. How about that 15" Mag? Throw some more hours of your life into making someone else rich.
You end up wasting your life to feed the ways you choose to waste your life. How many hours of work is your cable and internet bill?
It's just the way it is.
Of course its not a death sentence. Life exists outside the rut, and I think all of us try to be more out of it than in it, but even still eventually the rut is what we all call home. It's just a matter of how uncomfortable you are with the idea of not being comfortable.
Look, all I'm saying is you are one amongst millions with the same problem. At 19, you have lived most of your life in a world of entertainment and information gone out of its fukking mind. You are not alone.
But you should feel the wind on your face before you lose yourself to the rut.
/rant