>>182620TK was on the right track but he was too radical. Technology is absolutely a good thing and primitivism is retarded and thankfully not generally seriously considered outside of "muh trad 1800s homesteading" fantasies. If you want to go off-grid and live in a log cabin and raise and slaughter your own livestock and such, go right ahead, that's friggin bombastic, but Ted was right about technology being self-propelling, inevitable and a net negative on humanity, but I think that only starts to take effect after a certain point, and I think we began to hit that point around 2016, if not a little bit before. Prior to then, technology served to facilitate real life, it was all in the context of real life. Phones helped us perform functions, websites were mainly educational, commercial, or artistic, and (console) video games were mostly made within the assumption you'd play them in the living room, which usually meant having at least one other person with you, hence the long-lost couch co-op. Even computer games often came with LAN in mind.
Now, everything is a platform for engagément. Phones are engagēment machines, the most successful websites are platforms designed to farm engagëment, video games have become a solitary experience and demand either maximum engagêment or spending money from you to advance (modern CoD, Halo). The pattern is that technology has begun to cannibalize culture, going from a helpful tool or a medium of interaction to the center of attention in and of themselves.
>blud is YAPPING. One large YAPPUCCINO please.tldr tech not bad, tech addiction bad