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And before all, who is willing to intentionally miss (perhaps forever) the remaining episodes of their favorite show to make that all happen?
I don't think they're making any more episodes of Firefly
Turns out they could take the sky from us. 😞
Hey you're here at least - they couldn't stop the signal.
Until they kill me with a sword. How weird would that be?
Must you upset me so?
Yeah. We can't even get people to agree to stop using social media networks that spread misinformation and fund the worst elements in society. You can't even SUGGEST it to them without being met with angry, ignorant, defensive nonsense. If we can't even manage that, how are we going to convince them to risk everything on revolution? I think we've Brave New World'd too hard - the old rules do not apply.
I don't know what the answer is. But the problem is clear.
i'm kinda hoping that social media gets less interesting over time to many people. the reason why everybody spent 15 hours a day in front of their smartphone for the last 2 decades was mostly because of the novelty of it all. once we've seen it all, it's less interesting and people will stop using it so much.
I'd like to think so too, but there's a whole generation growing up without anything else in their reference frame to switch to - this IS their lives. It's easy for old farts like me to change to something else - we had a couple decades BEFORE the internet.
oh at some point smartphones were new and unfamiliar, and still they captured people's attention. this means that something else can capture people's attention as well, in the future.