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We’re kinda spoiled with “all the X we could want, whenever we want”.

  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you only have self-control because you have no outlet for boredom, you don’t have self-control.

    My dad used to get bored and go out in the woods and stick firecrackers into frogs. A lot of people in his generation died doing stupid things because they were bored. They didn’t have phones, so they must have had self-control? Nah.

    The kid won’t be better without the device. They’re not bad kids now. They’re reacting, really badly, to an awful situation. It just so happens (not a coincidence, though, they’re linked) that this particular technological innovation was at a similar time as all the shit above.