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> The more time passes, the less I can shake the feeling that the world would be better if we tuned out our environment less. I’m curious what you do on a 6 hr
by plandis 2y ago
> The more time passes, the less I can shake the feeling that the world would be better if we tuned out our environment less.
I’m curious what you do on a 6 hr plane ride that’s not tuning out your environment?
- latexr 2y agoRead, sleep, think, stare out the window… While you can argue reading and sleeping are tuning out the environment, I’m never completely disengaged from my surroundings. Even if you stare at a screen with headphones on¹, someone can still get your attention via your peripheral vision. Either way, I get why people do it, I was making more of a general point. It’s common for me to be walking down a street and see other people, also walking, so glued to their phones they notice nothing around them, to the point they have no reaction to near collisions. I also find it telling that while the author mentioned (and I quoted) planes and trains, all of the many responses so far has centred on planes. ¹ Which I don’t do but won’t criticise anyone for it either.