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TheOtherKC's avatar

I remember seeing a lot of people justifying that screenshot up there with, "oh they're just introverts. It's fine."

I am what they'd call "an introvert", and let me tell ya, those answers do not sound like me when I'm in a healthy mood. Just spitballing here, but I would even posit that "being pleasantly alone" has suffered as much as "making meaningful human connections". There's just that grey fugue, interacting with a screen, not quite alone, not quite with others.

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Joshua Lucas's avatar

This piece is what finally got me to upgrade to paid. It’s an important piece that expresses the inchoate fear and sadness a lot of Gen X folks have thinking about the lives of our younger friends and children.

The extent to which we are automating our own dehumanization, and doing it first on our children, terrifies me.

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