I was watching This Is England from 2006, and it reminded me of the olden days of yore, in the fabled before-times, where people would just bunch up together every Friday in someone’s flat, get drunk, blast music, and talk without distractions.
I can barely remember it now.
Anyway, get off my synthetic lawn.
It kinda sounds like you just became boring and stopped going to parties lol. People still go to parties.
People do, but not as much as they did the decades before. That’s for sure. There’s a measurable decline of nightlife/clubs/bars/etc. almost everywhere. Phones are one reason, prices, corporatization and the vanishing of subcultures, outside in the real world, are others…
I did stop going to parties. Not to sound like a crotchety old man who hates everything new, but do people actually put their phones away and get on with “enjoying the night”?
Every time I see people (myself included) they’re busy with their phones. Big groups of kids, adults, basically everyone. Its only the pensioners you see not using their phones all the time. Honestly its a serious question. I’m not here to argue that phonebad etc, just like, modern world different.
Like I will never know what its like to use a horse to do manual labour. Not saying that the old way is necessarily better, but the experience is something I will never have.
Is a joke? every oldie i see has their readers on stuck to a tablet or phone, parents, grandparents, aunts uncles and neighbors all in a trance
They’re the worst offenders imo. Nonstop BoomerBook and candy crushing
Maybe when theyre alone, but all the ones I see in groups theyre in groups.
I think mostly they dont know how to use them