That’s nonsense. A cell phone is merely a tool.
You may as well say that the invention of the telephone itself diminished human interaction, though I’m sure you’ve got one in your home. Why go to the barber shop or the general store for ‘news’, when you had a telephone in the house?
Even the Amish now allow telephones on their properties, if not actually in their houses. They recognize that it’s a useful tool.
I think a lot of people are developing an irrational fear of technology, even though everyone alive today has been an avid user of it all of their lives.
Technology is becoming a scapegoat for something that is actually lacking in OURSELVES.
For other things they have their neighbors - the Amish-ish; Mennonites. They have cars.
Actually the Amish have decried technology that keeps people from interacting in person for decades. And they refuse to use certain types of tools. Many had refused EFT because it separated a worker from the concrete fruits of his labor and the relationships they have with their postal carrier and their bank tellers. The discussions about relationships and their importance is what initially drew me to conservative Anabaptism.
Tool is a slimy word. It supposedly justifies everything.
You know pornography ... that tool for a more quick and effective orgasm.
Marijuana ... that tool that helps people sleep... so it is legalized.
Surrogates mothers ... that tool so childless adults can have children.
Tools whose true impact is hidden.
Even the Amish now allow telephones on their properties,
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on my grandfather’s farm in central Pennsylvania, a phone was set up in the milkshed so the amish could come by and make phone calls.
not sure that has changed. have you seen amish make phone calls on their own property?