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Like, to me the main "point" of the video is about the dangers of "frictionless lives". About how people have gotten so good at living within four walls hooked up to a screen that within seconds can show them any movie, any song, any book, and how that will lead, or maybe already has led, to the death of community and culture. People's capacity to spend the future without conflict or desire will lead to that future being made up of dead malls and empty rooms.
And like, to be completely honest, I don't see it. I just don't see that happening, to be honest. Even within lives that are inextricably linked to the internet there's still a lot of friction, not just from doomscrolling, either. Like I'm pretty well-off and online by Latin American standards and the ways in which the economy and politics of Chile and Argentina have added "friction" into my life are uncountable, and that's not even to speak of the millions of my countrymen that are affected way more. Even the most online people I know irl have sex, hang out with others, and go to extremely *alive* malls. To most people living right now the world is very friction-full and, to be honest, not super empty.
To me it feels like if you wanted to argue that the future is made up of conflict-less empty rooms you would need to assume that the future is only inhabited by Middle and Upper class people from the first world, and, maybe coincidentally, that's the only type of person Geller discusses the works of in his video.
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Enara 
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@AppleAmps i haven't seen the video, but I agree with you (yay, latam experiences!). That kind of statement tends to be said when the only bellybutton you see is yours. And the one of your friends, maybe 😆
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Sksjskjsks, good job summarizing my three paragraphs of text into one sentence and an emoji, I agree!
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