Things I’m thinking about lately. We are addicted to convenience and consumption. I vowed when my smartphone needed replacing, I wouldn’t do it. All the child slavery/child labor in mines is messing with my head. I can’t participate in that. Well low and behold, on Sunday, my phone got run over many times by cars (don’t ask. Or do, I’m not the boss of you)
ANYWAYS. I actually did repair the screen at a shop, but before doing that I decided now is the time to get a flip phone. Going back to my roots as it were.
I have had a flip phone for the past 24 hours. It has been horrible.
Y’all I truly am addicted to the convenience that smartphones bring.. Texting takes 5x as long. I was laughing hysterically because I needed to text my friend but I could only type numbers, hadn’t figured out how to switch cases.
I am ashamed to say. I just put my sim card back into my smartphone. So. Failure. For now. But it took me two years to finally be OFF social media without constantly reactivating. So maybe I can practice. And spend more than $40 on a slightly better flip phone. I think I purchased one of the worst ones on the market. A Vortex if you want to know.
I have been feeling the pull to not participate. In predatory capitalism that is destroying the planet, In AI that is making us stupid and also destroying the planet. In a culture of endless convenience and doordashed wastery that is America. In paying taxes that end up being used to bomb school girls in Iran. It makes me sick. Spotify’s CEO was funding AI use for weaponry/military. I’ve been bothering all my friends real good to switch to other streaming platforms (I use tidal)
I always hear “Oh it’s really not the consumers fault, it’s the corporations/big tech/insert powerful player here.
I don’t buy it.
We are participating. We did this.
Anyways soapbox over.
Do whatever you want, on a billion year timeline the earth will outlast us.
