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Fair enough, but when I'm at a restaurant and an entire family sit there, not speaking, all staring at their ****** rectangle I think that is sad. When I see a father walking his child outside at the park and staring at his phone and not the world around him enjoying time with his child I think its sad. When I see people who place their order at the drive through next to our store and immediately get back on their phone for the 100ft drive to the pickup window I find that sad.
I think it's great that I can pop on IG and see contest photos in real time, fucking awesome, but when the ****** rectangle beeps and the person I am speaking to, IN PERSON IN THE REAL WORLD, immediately ignores me to see what the beep is, I think that is rude and sad and pathetic. To pay X dollars a month to be at the beck and call of a device is sad to me.
It is what it is but I pride myself in NOT being a slave of the ****** rectangle.
You're right that is sad.
However if it wasn't the phones perhaps that same family would still be as disengaged as they currently are. Perhaps they'd be staring out of the window, or reading a paper or just sat in silence resenting each other.
The point being bad parenting is the umbrella issue and it occurred in every generation.
This is simply human nature.
A lot of what we attribute to the downfalls of this generation is simply the current experience of human nature.
It is the nature of man to be imperfect, if it's there we'll find a way to fuck things up. Every generation just fucks it up a little bit differently and then forgets when they get older.