What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

I’m not sure what keeps me there, what keeps any of us there, beyond inertia. We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.

What if we just stopped?

What if we stopped plugging our selves into the machines, stopped performing (wittingly and unwittingly) for the algorithm, stopped letting bots bait us, stopped all of it and figured out new ways—our ways—to do things again.

I love the sentiment here. I agree with so much. I just don’t believe people will (or can) stop themselves. Because I don’t know if people know how to just be anymore (without their phone as an “I’m bored” fix).