Counterpoint: The Babysitters Club [0] > Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children > In the face of the overwhe

Counterpoint: The Babysitters Club [0] > Apps like Seamless and Yelp listen in on our adult lives, then speak to us like children > In the face of the overwhelming question — “What’s it for?” — a strain of avant-garde art responds by playing up its inutility, she argues. It magnifies its impotence until “it begins to look silly.” > We cannot find food on our own, or choose a restaurant, or settle a tiny debt. Where that dependency feels unseemly in the context of independent adult life, it feels appropriate if the user’s position remains childlike, and the childlikeness makes sense when you consider that Yelp depends on us to write reviews, and therefore must, like a fun mom, make chores feel fun too. > There is no better example of cuteness applied in the service of power-concealment than Pokémon Go, which is a large data-collection and surveillance network devised by the former Google Earth engineers at Niantic and then candy-coated with Nintendo IP. 0. https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/ https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/