> Books, TV, video games were self limiting compared to the modern internet—especially social media—delivered via smartphones.
So make that argument against social media on smartphones, not against all screens, and modern media only being "feeding distraction to the masses" (a direct quote from noduerme).
> Anyone who has taken trips to foreign countries before smartphones and GPS would have been forced to talk to _people_
Speaking slowly and loudly in english at someone in a small french village asking for the bakery isn't something that we should mourn losing. The meme of loud americans/english travelling to places and expecting everyone to speak english predates most people on this thread, and was the reality for most people.
> To live a full life means to be in contact with the physical world, and to act within it.
There is nothing about modern media formats - tv, video games, many parts of the internet, that stop you from doing so. As a child, I grew up watching TV programmes, playing games and reading books that inspired me to explore and take on new experiences. I'm never going to go wild camping in yosemite, and that's fine, but I was never going to do that in a pre-smartphone world either.
> apps almost always will try to increase your engagement with your phone, and because time isn't infinite, this means decreasing your engagement with life.
This is not a tautology. it only decreses engagement if you min max your life (which would be at odds with what you're saying).
> You can't see the water your swimming in, but there are some of us who still can.
To use your analogy, you can't see that the water you're swimming in is the same water your parents were swimming in when they were telling you the same thing about <whatever>.
So make that argument against social media on smartphones, not against all screens, and modern media only being "feeding distraction to the masses" (a direct quote from noduerme).
> Anyone who has taken trips to foreign countries before smartphones and GPS would have been forced to talk to _people_
Speaking slowly and loudly in english at someone in a small french village asking for the bakery isn't something that we should mourn losing. The meme of loud americans/english travelling to places and expecting everyone to speak english predates most people on this thread, and was the reality for most people.
> To live a full life means to be in contact with the physical world, and to act within it.
There is nothing about modern media formats - tv, video games, many parts of the internet, that stop you from doing so. As a child, I grew up watching TV programmes, playing games and reading books that inspired me to explore and take on new experiences. I'm never going to go wild camping in yosemite, and that's fine, but I was never going to do that in a pre-smartphone world either.
> apps almost always will try to increase your engagement with your phone, and because time isn't infinite, this means decreasing your engagement with life.
This is not a tautology. it only decreses engagement if you min max your life (which would be at odds with what you're saying).
> You can't see the water your swimming in, but there are some of us who still can.
To use your analogy, you can't see that the water you're swimming in is the same water your parents were swimming in when they were telling you the same thing about <whatever>.