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The story you've laid out isn't the problem. The problem is when you are at lunch with someone and instead of conversing with you they are on their phone (in yo

The story you've laid out isn't the problem. The problem is when you are at lunch with someone and instead of conversing with you they are on their phone (in your example this is justifiable but I'm guessing most people aren't getting important updates - they're texting, or checking Twitter). It's rude (I don't think anyone can deny that). The person at the next table shouldn't give a shit - it's nothing to do with him. But I can be pissed off. In this example I care about what someone else is doing because it is directly negatively effecting me. I'm at lunch with them to talk and eat with them and they are ignoring me. It would be the same if you went out to lunch with someone 20 years ago and instead of talking to you they took out a notebook and started writing, or they simply stared out the window and completely ignored you.

xlayn 13y ago
Still not... Thinking is expensive... The problem is an economy one... You are basically consuming instead of creating... So the term "Zombie" I think is accurate, this is the new religion, the way of getting people think away of your first and main problem in life... life it's finite, what should you do to make it worth it. There are several things here, according to [1] getting people from just fit to society to have a character, and this is mine: to have an idea of life requires a process of evaluating and suffer, this is both expensive and not pleasant, and we are machines of pleasure. Just think about twitter... how many totally articulated ideas you can get on the tipical facebook post size? now shrink it to 140 chars... substract the space for hashes and you get vomited something someone else said.... No discussion, no food for your brain. Of course you may agree with this with inversely proportional occurrence to this statement to how much you like to analyze things... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration
- xlayn 13y ago
  btw, as much as I hate to think this, HN is our FB. I'm not answering or working on the answer to the question, what great thing should I do with my life here... just the small immediate gratification... it's not just about the cell facebookers

xlayn 13y ago

Still not... Thinking is expensive... The problem is an economy one... You are basically consuming instead of creating... So the term "Zombie" I think is accurate, this is the new religion, the way of getting people think away of your first and main problem in life... life it's finite, what should you do to make it worth it. There are several things here, according to [1] getting people from just fit to society to have a character, and this is mine: to have an idea of life requires a process of evaluating and suffer, this is both expensive and not pleasant, and we are machines of pleasure. Just think about twitter... how many totally articulated ideas you can get on the tipical facebook post size? now shrink it to 140 chars... substract the space for hashes and you get vomited something someone else said.... No discussion, no food for your brain. Of course you may agree with this with inversely proportional occurrence to this statement to how much you like to analyze things... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration

xlayn 13y ago
btw, as much as I hate to think this, HN is our FB. I'm not answering or working on the answer to the question, what great thing should I do with my life here... just the small immediate gratification... it's not just about the cell facebookers