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Originally Posted by Bob Kontak
I don't believe smart phone addiction and lack of shared sacrifice are connected.
They are not mutually exclusive but those that live their lives with their face in a phone are not necessarily hedonists.
One can argue the shared sacrifice concept was eroded greatly with the end of the draft in 1973. Just talkin' from the armchair.
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The dichotomy of smart phones is interesting to me. On one hand, they connect people from all over the world. But on the other, it's a very low quality connection with each user's focus on themselves vs. in-person interaction with real eye contact and reading visual cues. It's a much richer experience and all parties have the opportunity to give and take more away. Smart phones transmit data, physicality creates experience.
Shared sacrifice is arguably one of the richest forms of experience humans have.
That is how I connect the two.
Full circle, cell phones transmit data.
Shared sacrifice and experience creates deep, emotional bonds.
An excess of the former and distinct lack of the latter is destroying our culture. That's my hypothesis.