Young people don’t have tribes any more. We have smartphones instead | Jack Jones
We hunt in packs. It's human nature. We do it to protect ourselves from the threat of attack, loneliness and to gather food. And while we are at it, our packs develop their own cultures, beliefs and ways of behaving. That includes ways to amuse ourselves when not much is happening. Thankfully, we don't have to go out and kill yaks any more, but while the technology has moved on from the wheel to the microchip, our mentality has not.
We are still tribal; the old are still trying to control the young, and the young are still trying to break free from the mortal enemies of parents, poverty and boredom. The tensions are the same as ever. But now they are being worked out in a digital world and not the real one - a world where physical strength, or even physical presence, is no longer needed.
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