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The entire point is that you don’t need a phone to do any of this, just like you don’t need a spike gun if you have a hammer when building a house. If you feel
by hnarn 6y ago
The entire point is that you don’t need a phone to do any of this, just like you don’t need a spike gun if you have a hammer when building a house. If you feel that liberates you, go ahead and do whatever you want, but when you’re preaching to others about how they’re somehow going against our innate human nature, that’s when I get a bit annoyed.
Don’t you think it’s pretty obvious that this exact line of reasoning could be made against the use of books on public transport if we were discussing this in the 1800s? Why are you fine with distracting yourself with a book, but reading the news on a smartphone is somehow different?
- altitudinous 6y agoYou seem to be trying to describe the point of my own post to me, I don't get why you would do that. I know the point of my own post. As I have just written to someone else above - you are just proving the OP original article. Why not just try something different rather than pointlessly arguing about the intricacies of it all on the internet..
- saagarjha 6y agoI see nothing in that post that is explaining anything other than why you calling being without a smartphone as liberating as what others may call “I have free time to waste”. Now, you can argue that maybe I should stop and smell the flowers sometimes, but usually when I have to do something it is work and I would much rather get it done as quickly as possible with the tools I have at my disposal.