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Have you seen "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4

agumonkey 8y ago
couldn't help but think about that
djsumdog 8y ago
ah I remember that. I can't help but think in a modern context that this bit falls into the whole, "nostalgic for a better time that never existed fallacy" though. For example: old crufty rant about how no one talks to each other and everyone is on their phones. Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Everyone has their head in a book or newspaper or magazine. By the 1980s, some nerds have walkmans. By the 90s everyone has discmans, plus their book. Today every has their phone, on which their either reading a book, a magazine or listening to a podcast or music. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much.
- samatman 8y ago
  I'm reminded of one of my very favorite strips from the Far Side: https://familybreedscontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/beforetv.jpg https://familybreedscontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/befo...
- stcredzero 8y ago
  Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Of course people don't interact on mass transit. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much. It has been a progression. More and more interaction has been mediated electronically, where it's been widely known since at least the 80's that interpersonal cues do not work in the same way. Of course non-interaction on mass transit is going to be a constant. It's socializing in the home, day to day, where things have changed. Things have changed.
- jacobolus 8y ago
  Today they are mostly on social media or playing mindless addictive games. Which I guess is sort of like reading a magazine or watching TV, but not exactly. They are also on social media or playing mindless addictive games walking down the street, at restaurants, in stores, in the park, intermittently during the workday, in bed, on the toilet, ...

agumonkey 8y ago

couldn't help but think about that

djsumdog 8y ago

ah I remember that. I can't help but think in a modern context that this bit falls into the whole, "nostalgic for a better time that never existed fallacy" though. For example: old crufty rant about how no one talks to each other and everyone is on their phones. Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Everyone has their head in a book or newspaper or magazine. By the 1980s, some nerds have walkmans. By the 90s everyone has discmans, plus their book. Today every has their phone, on which their either reading a book, a magazine or listening to a podcast or music. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much.

samatman 8y ago
I'm reminded of one of my very favorite strips from the Far Side: https://familybreedscontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/beforetv.jpg https://familybreedscontent.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/befo...
stcredzero 8y ago
Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Of course people don't interact on mass transit. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much. It has been a progression. More and more interaction has been mediated electronically, where it's been widely known since at least the 80's that interpersonal cues do not work in the same way. Of course non-interaction on mass transit is going to be a constant. It's socializing in the home, day to day, where things have changed. Things have changed.
jacobolus 8y ago
Today they are mostly on social media or playing mindless addictive games. Which I guess is sort of like reading a magazine or watching TV, but not exactly. They are also on social media or playing mindless addictive games walking down the street, at restaurants, in stores, in the park, intermittently during the workday, in bed, on the toilet, ...