Herion addicts like heroin... Just like we like our phones...
Every generation thinks it's the worst. We are, as a species, constitutionally Chicken Little. The sky is always falling.
The meme at the top of this post makes that point better than I can. We look at people glued to their phones and declare the death of real human connection. And then you see the photo below it: a train car full of people in their Sunday best, every single face buried in a newspaper. Not one of them talking to each other. Not one of them present.
Socrates (or Plato, one of the two) reportedly said that writing things down would be the death of intellectualism, because no one would have to remember anything anymore. Every generation gets its version of this panic. Every generation is certain theirs is the one that finally broke humanity.
So let's take the moral superiority out of this conversation before we go any further.
The newspaper thing, though. There is actually a difference worth naming. Once you read the article, you were done with it. Maybe you cut it ou...
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