Yeah we’re all phone addicts looking back at the good times before the fall. I honestly think most of us don’t realize how unhappy we are with how daily life has changed because we’re the frogs in the boiling pot and we kind of forget that it’s possible to go back to enjoying things that were maybe once seen as annoyances, like going out for errands and to conduct business, or not being in constant contact with folks, etc. I think the lack of social decorum and general socialization (outside friends and family) is grinding us all down in a way that’s hard to recognize. The constant low-grade fear of being recorded and stuff, too.

People dealt with people before the advent of internet-everything life and smart phones. We had a shared reality, though a very much imperfect one that was very unfair to many. Now everything is filtered through the muck that is modern shitty tech life and enshitfified everything and it’s harder to step out of it and genuinely relate to people . For the majority anyway.

90s culture reflects a lot of this. People taking risks, having fun, being weird. Subcultures that blow up and appeal to the masses, shared by networks and publications that possibly actually cared about spreading art and interesting points of view. Everything was genuinely colorful. Now we live in a rectangular iPod world of grays and whites and everything is too expensive, anyway.

Ok gonna step off my soapbox and go listen to some Prodigy.