Rhetoric question…

I’ve been thinking about this topic after listening to a couple of podcasts on moves to ban the use of phones in American schools. It brought back memories from my childhood in the nascent years of videogames and the internet, where most parents took it for granted that reward and relaxation in the form of entertainment, was something to postpone until after having taken care of ones daily responsibilities (now already forgotten folk wisdom being re-discovered), lest the child would come to expect that good things come without effort (and more existentially, that they could live and survive off other peoples’ work, leaving them spoiled, in a perpetual childish state, living off their parents, never becoming an independent selfsustaining adult, both with regards to their physiological AND emotional needs).

Are we all making ourselfs spoiled brats, then?

I’ve been simply turning my phone off for hours many days more and more lately. The physically enabling uses of phones (navigation, payment, identification, planing physical meetups) should not be supplemented by the disabling (entertaining) uses (browsing, reading, watching, mastrubatingly tapping around the user interface with no practical purpose). I’d argue each second spent doing any of the latter BEFORE having met ones daily responsibilities, is a form of selfharm.

Let’s try to cut down on virtually cutting ourselves.

It’s quite stupid when you think about it to keep on doing something that is knowingly harmful to ourselves and proclaim that it’s so hard not to do it when there’s a literal off-switch on our supossedly Great Oppresor.