More and more and more I’m convinced that mobile phones are the great evil plaguing society. (Shock, horror, holy original insight, Batman!) I mean, sure, there’s climate change, technofeudalism, and the social media-led brainwashing of the masses, but in many ways if you were to draw a Venn diagram of all of those things, a convincing argument could be made that at the central point you’d find mobile phones.
As I get older and my brain turns to mush and I descend gradually into the inevitable, sad state of repeating the same stories and same opinions, I’m certain that many one of them are going to be centered around how grateful how I am to have been of the last generation to have grown up knowing what it was like to live in a world before mobile phones, and especially before smartphones turned the internet from something that was a place you went to something that lived with you and inside of you at all times.
It may be no original insight that mobile phones have screwed us all, but for me personally it’s striking how I keep seeing yet new ways that they’ve done so. It really cycles through them week by week. Right now, I’m fixated on how they’ve killed boredom. Sweet, beautiful, necessary boredom. And, because the all-seeing algorithm does indeed see all, I’ve also been getting all the #content on this topic now too. But you know what, it rang true, fed to me the same detestable way as other stuff does, so why the hell not share, to see if others get something out of it:
