yea, come back to the internet
we have anything and everything all of the time
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Idk how I slept on Burnham for so long, that was great.
How could it have come to this... I hate my generation. I'd rather spend my time studying, but that damn phone keeps finding its way back into my hand.
I feel like we are mentally crippled. And it’s our parents and grandparents generations fault.
If you think this is mentally crippling, you should have experienced the world before the internet! We would believe everything the mainstream news told us and had few realistic alternatives. It was hard to find out if the book you needed was in the library. All information was out of date. Your parents would tell you some misconception and you'd just go ahead thinking that for 20 years.
Being able to instantly find the answer to most questions is very useful.
Yes I know, I know. Not everything is bad. But if we humans stopped complaining, then it would seem as if everything is fine. And that’s a big no no.
There's a lot those generations did wrong, but your phone habits are your problem. If you want something with more substance, download some novels onto your phone. Project Gutenberg has tens of thousands of Public Domain works on it.
Don’t get me wrong. My phone is the fastest and most reliable research machine for my studying. But all the other information there. It was build to suck in my concentration. And at the same time it has been interwoven so deeply into our lives, that leaving it behind makes away a part of freedom.
There’s even a pro listening to uncompressed FLACs through real headphones while browsing Reddit.
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