“Every other time I go out to eat with a group, be it family, friends, or acquaintances of whatever age, conversation routinely plunges into a discussion of when it is appropriate to pull out a phone. People boast about their self-control over not checking their device, and the table usually reaches a self-congratulatory consensus that we should all just keep it in our pants. The pinnacle of such abstinence-only smartphone education is a game that is popular to talk about (though I’ve never actually seen it played) wherein the first person at the dinner table to pull out their device has to pay the tab. Everyone usually agrees this is awesome.
What a ridiculous state of affairs this is.
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The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry (via s-m-i)
I am building something that potentially capitalizes on this fetishization. Then again, the fetish may actually get us to reconsider the balance and while the temporary state of affairs is absurd, the long term realignment is probably a good thing.





