what blows my mind about our social collapse

Everyone neglects human experience to just stare at their phone 14 hours a day and most people are really bad at it.

Can't post. Asking chatgpt if your soup is too hot. Getting groomed on discord. You're not good at this.

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Punxi · F

Collapse ?

Ever consider transition?

We’ve always stared at something I haven't we? FIre, space, gods, television… now it’s glass that stares back attcha.

The medium certainly changed, but has the hunger?

What if we're ( including you) are not bad at this.....just early.

Clumsy af in a new language of connection, mistaking noise for meaning, or sum'.

And maybe...just a smidgen maybe...the real question isn’t why are we're on our phones…
....but what we are trying not to feel without them?

🤔

JohnnySpot · 56-60, M

@Punxi In Gulliver's Travels when he goes to the land of the intellectuals they hire "nudgers" because they're so deep in thought they would walk into a ditch.

Punxi · F

@JohnnySpot You investigat'in mah' situational awareness, sir? 🤔

JohnnySpot · 56-60, M

@Punxi I can't help it I am attracted to shiny things.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Punxi I do want to be clear this is a shitpost lol

Punxi · F

@CountScrofula I understood that from the start...🤣

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Punxi What happens when the internet crashes? Or a storm blows out electricity for days or weeks? What’s plan B?

Punxi · F

@Mamapolo2016 The real shift wouldn’t be technological...it’d be existential.People would have to meet themselves… unfiltered, uninterrupted....once again.

The internet as an advancement...not a replacement.