It’s overall a pretty shitty and inhuman world we’re creating. A few years ago, people were joking that dating itself was immoral. I think we’ve reached that point now in reality. Check out the currently most-upvoted comment. Dang.
It takes a lot of effort to get kids to talk to each other in class. They walk in to the room from the passing period and continue to be on their phones. I can’t even say they are texting (talking to each other), but just mindlessly scrolling. Teaching has become exhausting for so many reasons, but the amount of effort teachers make to draw students out, talk, be present, and ask questions, engage in any meaningful way rivals staging a Broadway production. It doesn’t surprise me that kids aren’t connecting, let alone dating, because the default setting is to just not talk to anyone.
Fuck that sounds like utter hell. It really does appear we are moving to the world of Asimov’s The Naked Sun.
I don’t want to live in that world.