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You reminded me of the meme with a gnarly and violent and gory dark ages painting with the caption: No smartphone in sight, just people living in the moment.

If your moment is scoffing at others and being all fussed up about how others aren't in the moment... it's a strange way of going around is my point. Live and let live.



> If your moment is scoffing at others

You may have misread what I wrote. Noticing others behaviour and making an observation about it as being curious (maybe if I had used that word instead of strange, it would have helped..?)

Not sure who is scoffing? and who is being all fussed up? If that is how you read my post, maybe try again after settling whatever it is about this topic(or maybe completely outside of it?) that appears to be activating and creating these projections of judgement in the post


I didn't mean you, I meant people such as my friend from my original comment.


Got it. I agree that would not do much but make the moment have completely passed on by..

>> Kept talking about it and was the main topic when reviewing the concert to other friends.

Though if we take a bit of a dystopian recursive view, your friend(and other like them) are living in the moment by fussing about others living in the moment in a way that allows your friend to live in the moment


Are the people taking excessive photos letting others live (in the moment)?


Too much of anything is a bad thing, that's besides the point as that argument can be made about anything.


Which is the exactly the point. Both photo-takers and non-photo-takers need to live and let live.

Just because people have agency doesn’t mean it’s good because technology.




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