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When I leave my house to go to the grocery store I have to make an active concerted effort to not compulsively check my phone. When I head out to the wildernes
by stevesearer 5y ago
When I leave my house to go to the grocery store I have to make an active concerted effort to not compulsively check my phone.
When I head out to the wilderness it does not take the same level of active effort to not compulsively use my phone.
- mind-blight 5y agoSame, and that gets to the heart of it. Out phones have been engineered to encourage constant novelty and engagement. That's a systemic issue. Leaving a phone behind is a individual solution. This article argues (eventually) for a systemic solution. The article fails by being condescending towards individual solutions instead of acknowledging them as a helpful stopgap