pitfalls of le internet

Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive .

The kids can’t read . They can sound out the letters and recognise words, but they find it impossible to sit in one place and ingest a single extended linear piece of prose for more than five minutes. The kids don’t go outside. They don’t feel the sun on their skins. They spend whole summers locked in their rooms, alone, experiencing the world... See more

i’m tired and

my window to the world

has no curtains

the only calls we received

were from our mother,

telling us to

come home,

dinner was on the table

there was no algorithm

to drill us into compliance

no one to tell us:

you are behind

you are cutting your onions wrong

you need to buy this thing (and this one and this one)

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