‘Luddite’ Teens
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‘Luddite’ Teens
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#3If this is a real thing then maybe I feel there is hope for at least a small pocket of society. Good on them for taking back some control of their lives. Color me impressed.
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#4I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too.
Yes, they're kind of posturing and pretentious, but in ways that remind me of myself in high school; I feel like I get them. Your average high school kid is a lot more confusing to me these days.
I did have to laugh at this:
> "I talked to my adviser, though, and he told me most revolutions actually start with people from industrious backgrounds, like Che Guevara."
I wasn't sure what they meant by "industrious backgrounds"; apparently it means "wealthy" based on Guevara's wikipedia page. She's in good company, though... Ho Chi Minh and Lenin grew up privileged too.
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#5What flip phones work now that 3G is getting dropped?
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#6What flip phones work now that 3G is getting dropped?
You can buy 4G flip phones these days. Poke around the corners of the displays at an AT&T store or a Best Buy, there's usually one or two hiding somewhere.
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#7Things are going to get interesting in a few years when these kids get jobs and can practice their machine-breaking in earnest.
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#8I admire the hell out of these kids. If I had a little more strength in my own convictions, a little more willpower, I would probably go flip-phone only too. Yes, they're kind of posturing and pretentious, but in ways that remind me of myself in high school; I feel like I get them. Your average high school kid is a lot more confusing to me these days. I did have to laugh at this: > "I talked to my adviser, though, an…
Try flip an hour a day and work up. We used to only have landlines and phortress phones, and yet somehow still survived.
I always liked how 1984's Goldstein said that in principle Inner Party children did not automatically become Inner themselves.
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#9Things are going to get interesting in a few years when these kids get jobs and can practice their machine-breaking in earnest.
a little more difficult now that no one wears those wooden shoes anymore, though.
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#10I've been experimenting with a "no phone" protocol for a few months now. It has been amazing. Only occasionally problematic/inconvenient, mostly miss the GPS and music. Most things I used to do on phone I simply do on a laptop. But not constantly grabbing for a phone and staring at a screen... priceless.