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You can also lock guns away, and people find way past the locks. Someone forgets to lock them or someone actively breaks the lock. Sure, smartphones aren't the
by sdfghswe 3y ago
You can also lock guns away, and people find way past the locks. Someone forgets to lock them or someone actively breaks the lock.
Sure, smartphones aren't the problem _in themselves_. But blocking apps is also not the solution.
- trgn 3y agofwiw - I think we're largely on the same page on this specific issue. Maybe a philosophical divergence though: > Sure, smartphones aren't the problem _in themselves_. It is time we start to accept that some technologies are vile, and yes, they are a problem _in themselves_. The modernist mind (ie. the human mind as it exists today) cannot accept this because it seems like a fetishistic argument. Consider the evil monkey paw, that thing itself is evil. A modernist will refuse to accept such a reality. We have conditioned ourselves and each other that each inanimate thing is just an inert tool, applied in good or bad judgement. In a materialistic sense this is true. It is also completely trivial. Taking a step back, and surveying the totality of the environment, how some technologies just seem to be misapplied consistently, how some technologies leave a wake of destruction, how some technologies seem to cast an evil spell on everybody in its orbit. This is the reality in which we find ourselves. The only way out is true. Smashing the idol is the only way to ban the evil spirit.
- cassac 3y agoI don’t think “the solution” exists because the problem at its core is people and you can’t solve people. If blocking apps reduces the problem even a tiny bit it is just one more preventative tool to add to the tool box. Why limit your toolbox?