I wish technology could go away and we all go back to living like this

what's stopping you?

you know you can live how ever you want - freedom of choice

Its just like a TV...don't like what you are seeing, turn the channel.

I'd be on board with this if I could still have a ps5 and a smartwatch

We know that. We are discussing the philosophical ramifications of our society's choices and of all those "choices" that are made by someone else for us.

So much of what we put up with in our society is just the background noise, pollution, distraction, and monetization of our attention. It is brutal and not everyone (especially young people) can opt out and buy a house in the mountains, even though that would be a great option!

This can't be the main thing that 80% of Americans do with their lives.

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I suspect OP is most interested in incorporating aspects of that kind of lifestyle that involve the advertised woman.

But then OP will have to find the next thing to complain about...

Correct. Mainly because of the food that they eat. It makes a HUGE difference.

It's a good point.

I'm pretty convinced the early 21st century will be known as a technological blackspot by future historians.

In 1903 the first successful aircraft flight was made by the Wright Brothers, and just 73 years later humans were flying unmanned aircrafts on Mars!

What's the great invention of the 21st century so far? WiFi?

Hi Jamin,

You are never going to have a family. Mental health still matters, of course. Do you best like we all must.

It’s the avocado sandwich.

We also have smartphones, electric cars, reusable rockets, satellite internet, self-driving’ish cars, and AI that is already smarter on cognitive tasks than the majority of people, and many others but these are all meaningless I suppose.

I have been a dedicated software engineer for many years. At first, I had the cutting edge computers, phones and gizmos. But since the pandemic I have moved to rural, isolated towns. I still have the computers and gizmos, but dropped the phone about five years ago.

People often look at me strange when I tell them no phone. Some find it hard to believe. But I dont have one! I dont want one. There is a realm, wrath, dependency et al that comes with the phone, sucking your life away, making you less personal. I told a librarian this during the past week and she not only understood but applauded the effort as "big of you". We have a new state law prohibiting driving with a phone or device in hand. My response: good, because I dont have one.

I think the phone + social media + third party app dependency on social media for SSO logins needs to be stripped from everyone's lives. There is obviously something going on there, right before our very eyes, that isnt good and finalized research on those effects wont come forward for another 10-20 years. We have uncurated research pointing to it now. Takeaway point: something not good happens with phones, endless scrolling and social media so do your best to push it out of your life.

Being specifically phoneless has been a breath of fresh air. My witty one liners and humor are back. My willingness to go for deep intellectual engagement and conversation is back.

I suggest you guys do the same. Like I said, I still have a lot of on-screen time as an engineer but the phoneless lifestyle is one I prefer. It gets you to truly separate which is good for ,ental health.

Lol

You think returning shopping carts is the main thing 80% of Americans do with their lives?

I grow weeeeed

A family that looks like that drives the bolsheviks and their tools mad. A lot of it is due to their hypocritical racism, a common trait among the left.

What philosophical ramibubbadubbafications? That’s not a thing, not one anyone cares about except those with the luxury to philosophize.

80% of Americans don’t push shopping carts. If you mean some figurative shopping cart pushing, who cares? I say let them push cart and eat cake.