Spent a morning out on the town on my day off, and everyone is just fucking buried in their phones 24/7. This realization was so absurd to me
Of course I’m not exempt from this shit, but no wonder people are having so much trouble making friends and creating meaningful relationships in this day and age. So fucking bleak
They're bad in different ways. TV is more brainwashy while social media is more addicting. The real difference is portability. People weren't running around with pocket TVs during the 90s. At best, you had TVs in vans that kids would watch on long road trips. But if pocket TVs did exist back in the day, then I honestly don't think there would be any difference between people in the 90s staring at their pocket TVs and people now staring at their phones. The algo and bullshit like infinite scroll are cognitohazards, but everyone mindlessly absorbing the same talking points from the same talking heads is its own problem as well.
No disagreements with you there.