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Maybe. But I was already bored, lonely, angry and stupid before devices and social media were even invented.
by tom-thistime 7y ago
Maybe. But I was already bored, lonely, angry and stupid before devices and social media were even invented.
- jfengel 7y agoThough not TV and the telephone. The interviewee isn't really blaming the Internet, but rather many of the trappings of modernity. The Internet and the smartphone may exacerbate it, but the overall thesis is that we've spent about a century becoming more and more connected, and more and more continually entertained. I'm not entirely sure I buy the notion: Shakespeare describes characters who troll for entertainment(Don John, Iago), and Jane Austen's characters often grapple with boredom. Our expectations do seem to ratchet up with our technological ability to fulfill them, but I feel like it's more of a hedonic treadmill. Boredom and loneliness may be, on some scale, roughly constant. I do believe that social media has allowed us to ratchet up the effects of the "angry" and "stupid" part, possibly to unmanageable levels.
- jimbokun 7y agoBut more or less than today?