The Antidote For Our Pathetic Digital Addiction

Jason Pfaff
4 min readMar 1, 2023
Photo by Ravi Kumar on Unsplash

Yay! Social decay

Welcome to planet Thumb-Clicker Wankerville. Whatever you do, make sure you’re disengaged from other humans and as distracted as possible.

“Just because it’s popular doesn’t make it good or right.” My grandfather used to say, well before cell-phones came into existence. How relevant is that statement today?

It’s the wild west. Everybody’s out for themselves and driven by consumer marketing trends. It’s not a free world, it’s a free market, big difference. We don’t think twice, we just willingly board the Titanic and follow along with what everybody else is doing.

Everybody’s doing it

Were cell-phones even a good idea? I was the last person with a flip-phone because deep inside I knew something was off. We are not capable of disciplining ourselves with all of these devices and trends. The people influencing society the most don’t seem to care about the human condition, rather just their bottom lines. Sad, really.

The streets are empty, there are barely any children playing outside anymore. Fortnite has become more popular than actually living, like we were up until the screens took over. We let it happen and signed up for it.

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