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Steve Boatright's avatar

I'm, mostly, in ironic agreement with you. I am just about to put my phone down and return to tending my vegetable garden but before I do an observation or two. As a species we have removed ourself from selective pressure (evolution) and bereft of evolution we are doomed, eventually, to die out, it won't take a billion years! My other observation is that we use our phones to connect to friends, loved ones, colleagues because we live dispersed lives and we like to talk (as well as engage in poetry, philosophy, science and religion with fellow enthusiasts here on Substack - nourishing I think). So it isn't all zombification, love is seeping in.

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Baird Brightman's avatar

Your distracted suicidal highway swerver is a brilliant metaphor for who/what "we" are becoming! 👏

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