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I bet this is more about the stress of being constantly available to your boss, your parents, your teachers, your neediest friends than about wanting a world without technology.
I think you're right on the money, I recently took a vacation and i had the luxury to turn everything off I wanted and truly enjoy it, most Americans can't do that.
Euros don't have to deal with that shit because they are smart enough to organize enough to end that crap.
I think it's both that and not having real community ties. We don't form close associations with each other like back when we had town events, neighborhood gatherings, people belonged to more clubs, recreational groups, labor unions, etc.
I wonder if there was an attempt to ask people about television, too.
True. Though we're blaming the wrong thing in that case, we don't have town events and neighborhood gatherings because local communities don't have the money or a set town space anymore since the public square has been corporatized over the last few decades. Everything's been monetized, loitering laws have criminalized just hanging out. Real life has the same problem the internet has.
Agreed. I think it's more that we have been fooled on a superficial level into thinking that online interactions have filled the void (we're on "social media" after all). So we still recognize that there's something profound missing from our lives, but what that thing actually is has become kind of obfuscated. The dilemma then becomes whether to 1. blame technology, or 2. blame ourselves individually ("there must just be something wrong with me"). And either way it leads away from the radical solution of rebuilding those local, deep connections with our communities.