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Consuming technology, using it is not enough; we have to question it and teach others to question it. — Heidegger
Technological consciousness is full of contradictions and self-deceptions. ‘I won’t use my phone for the next ten minutes.’ Then we do — and make an excuse for it, and then another, and another, because we’re caught in a behavioral loop.
Nothing can stop our addiction to phones — because the serotonin doses are too high; they are designed to overwhelm us.
The students at the school where I teach come in exhausted every day because they stay up all night texting and watching videos; their dreams erased, their bodies worn down. This is the future — progressively dystopian. We’re literally educating people in this dystopia: normalizing it and rebranding it as utopia.
Even at The Met — which for me is an escape from the digital nightmare — people are on their phones; taking selfies and ignoring the art, the essence and purpose of the art.
