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> If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve. I'm wholly in sympathy with the idea that public life would be better if we spen
by JadeNB 3y ago
> If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve.
I'm wholly in sympathy with the idea that public life would be better if we spent less of it on our phone, but counting every good deed left undone as a harm done is a very dangerous road to go down.
- berkes 3y agoFair point. I wasn't seeing it as a "good deed left undone" but as a normalized state that has been unbalanced by phones and individualism. That the norm is a place where humans talk, collaborate, and have deep connections in small social groups. The way humans have lived for millions of years. I guess looking at it from a more practical perspective of individualism being the norm from which we should break through good deeds, is a far more effective and realistic way. Thanks.