Disregarding the mobile is the new feet. I explain this phrase that seems generated by a drunk. At the dawn of social networks, the photos of Pinreles in the sun announced the summer – if they wonder why there are so many businesses to make their nails, the answer is there – the “here suffering” and a bite of inconsequential images that documented the holidays from the check-in. Now almost no one writes anything personal on social networks – I read about it a few days – they languish eaten by personalized ads via algorithm and political anger sponsored by armies of bots.
This sunset will rejoice those who have always demonized digital life, a phenomenon that takes special virulence in summer, do not ask me why, it is enough to have a theory about the proliferation of nail rooms. A few days ago I crossed – in the mobile – with a photo in which someone looked forward on the bus while the rest attended their mobiles. “We no longer know how to enjoy life” or something similar prayed an applauded comment. Others sentenced that this attitude dehumanizes. It seems that not ecstasizing you before the cogote of a stranger during a journey that you repeat daily makes you someone who does not know how to enjoy the important things.
As I am one of those who live at a stuck phone I felt questioned and rebelled, but I did not convince them. Contemplating a screen while there are living beings around me makes me suspicious. It doesn’t matter that through that screen I can relax the melancholy of my father, relieve myself with the summer falling in a friend who believed to be dead for sentimental things or read about the rosemary that someone had just sent me, activities that a Turing test would consider human, I believe. They do not want to know that I also use the mobile to check the status of my cat something Pachucho or that I caress its chemically reinforced glass when I cross with the photos of the woman I sigh. For an analog Sanhedrin that judges the acts of others without bothering themselves to deepen them – one of the great evils of humanity – I am impoverishing modern life with my attitude. I am condemned to stay physically indifferent to the strange cogotes and I do not save me to use progress to be close to the people I want.
I stop fighting and I keep doing scroll On the bus, passing through the timeline Like the rosemary “once, once alone and light, always light.”
