The youngest of the young people are going to be completely different to my generation
They will really emerge as a cybernetic organism
Where their phone may well become their best friend

Their phone will understand them better than any friend or parent could ever understand them
Their phone will understand their emotional state
Their phone will be able to stimulate them better than any real-world experience could ever stimulate them

It's debatable whether this is progress or not

Personally I prefer not to be a battery in the matrix
But it will soon be possible to just plugin and live in whatever sort of virtual world you wish to design for yourself

As an example

The largest tree on the planet
The general Sherman
Is about 2 hours drive from LA

50% of people over the age of 50 have been to see it if they live in LA
For those aged 20
50% of people have never heard of it
And the number of people aged 20 who have seen it
Is under 1%

I suppose you can just put on your VR goggles and visit it and the experience is indistinguishable

Is that really better for young people

Zuckerberg gates and Steve Jobs certainly think it is

I think people have relationships and interactions

You for example have devoted a lot of time to developing a relationship with grappler
If we look at the opportunity cost
The time you have spent nurturing this relationship could have been spent developing a deep personal friendship in the real world
But you have  chosen grappler as your intimate partner
And he has reciprocated

If you look at a platform like Twitter or Facebook
This is where people are spending a lot of time developing intimate relationships

It's great for the owners of the platform

But given your limited time on earth
I would ask you if the opportunity cost is worth it
I suppose it depends on whether you see a bigger purpose for yourself
Then being merely stimulated and prodded

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2022 at 9:20am:



Alcoholic ...... I've got you on a string... can trigger you any time.... how are those coronary arteries going? 

Well - some young people are great.... some are arseholes....

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2022 at 3:36pm:



Actually there are more Unterboomers who are arseholes than older people.... we're sweet and nice... some of your lot are just snakes ... no wonder the kids often grow up bad ....