random thought of mine, but I think we are going to get a lot midlife crisis's and fight club/american beauty style movies like in the 90's when everyone got depressed about spending their lives in cubicals and living in the suburbs. idk maybe I'm too high rn but this feels like it's gonna be a thing
Yeah. This sort of reads like the shit I saw 30 years ago, "You're going to wish you hadn't spent all your time with your nose shoved in a book".
"Living Real Life" always seems to involve doing what the speaker thinks is engaging and not doing what the speaker finds dull, pedantic, and fruitless. Athletes telling you to hit the gym and play more sports. Business guys telling everyone to be entrepreneurs. Engineers telling everyone to learn to code. Religious types scolding agnostics. Activists bemoaning political apathy.
It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it enables people to remain overly isolated. On the other, it offers a means of communication and community that couldn't exist without the tech.
Parasocial relationships are kinda bad, aktuly. But engaging with people you'd never otherwise meet and holding on to friendships that would have dissolved with distance can be good.