Why You Should Get Off Your Phones and Let Yourself Be Bored

Why You Should Get Off Your Phones and Let Yourself Be Bored

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More and more and more I’m convinced that mobile phones are the great evil plaguing society. (Shock, horror, holy original insight , Batman!) I mean, sure, there’s climate change, technofeudalism, and the social media-led brainwashing of the masses, but in many ways if you were to draw a Venn diagram of all of those things, a convincing argument could be made that at the central point you’d find mobile phones.

As I get older and my brain turns to mush and I descend gradually into the inevitable, sad state of repeating the same stories and same opinions, I’m certain that many one of them are going to be centered around how grateful how I am to have been of the last generation t