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i watched enrico tartarotti's video about the coolness of smartphones recently, and it ties into another thought i've had. the only way to bring about meaningful social change, maybe more prominently so in teenagers, but not entirely not in adults, is the cool factor. oh, is this the new thing? oh, maybe i'll try it out, then. so, in order to banish something popular, it must first become uncool. as someone who isn't usually even aware, let alone be a part of the hive mind, far be it from me to understand and distill how to facilitate this happening, but i see it once in a while. maybe i'm in an echo chamber, but more and more people seem to equate a 'detached-ness' with an aspiration. i am still prone to receive oh, you haven't seen this yet? comments, but they've decreased. (maybe everyone just knows it's an exercise in futility.)

one more recommendation i got was eli.g's video, where he cuts out short-form stimulation entirely, as i have been attempting to do. unfortunately, an idle mind always finds solutions, and there's nothing if not an endless mine of places to find them these days. what i'm most worried about is the economic model of infinite growth that we've all seemingly subscribed to. there's nothing if not more, but how long for? aren't people bound to get tired? and who will win? an army of billion-dollar corporations trying to squeeze every last second of attention, or people's sense of self, of choice? i've always highly valued my sense of choice, ever since i got my hands on a phone, something digital i could customise, i have. (everyone will tell you the same). the defaults work, sure, but are they better for me? i know i'm going to get a dvorak physical keyboard when i have a desk that can hold it. it will take some huge choices for people to escape the walled (and growing) gardens of media being used now, and maybe we never will. maybe the next one will come along, and the "kids" will use them, and we'll languish on the sites we frequent today, as happened with the generation above us. i just hope it is kinder to them.

i want to leave instagram, but everyone i love is there, and i don't want to leave them.