>The Walkman was the first of a long line of mobile devices to attract criticism for isolating its users, promoting narcissism, detachment, and rude behavior, while at the same time preventing interactions that are the basis for traditional place-based communities.
Were those old people right?

>>105597008 (OP)
Idk what's your point with this post, but cassette tapes are based.

>>105597008 (OP)
Yes.
>>105597294
Fuck off, hipster.

Boomers hate it when you are self-actualizing instead of being socially coerced by the masses

>>105597475
Man. I bet you're one of those people who's cowardice kick's in when someone rings the bell announced.

Like a close neighbour just letting you know you forgot the garbage bins. Instead of possessing a spine, you hide behind the couch with a smart phone trying to sign into the ring app instead of simply opening the door and saying "hi".

People really are soulless NPCs in this era.

>>105597008 (OP)
WHAT?

>>105598521
NTA but that's definitely a projection
How do you see anon's comment and think about this? That's definitely your own struggle

This is a faggy thread, but I love the Walkman. Not the old outdated cassette, CD, or Mini-Disc ones, the network walkman line, which died 10 years ago and was replaced by android slop for streaming piggies.

>>105597008 (OP)
Yes
iPhones were a mistake and the reason why the internet and society as a whole fucking sucks and there is nothing in common

>>105598531
BASED, CAN'T HEAR BOOMERS OVER MY MUSIC EITHER, MAN
>>105598521
reddit spacing

ban newspapers, they're turning people anti-social
t. turbo-boomers

>>105598521
>kick's in

I miss when things were metal as fuck

>>105598521
Yes because 99% of the time it's not your neighbor but people trying to sell you shit or talking about their religion. I wished there was a spam filter in real life.

portable audio devices can promote narcissism and rude behaviour
but only if you're the kind of nigger that blasts it for everyone to hear

>>105600063
So grow a spine and tell them to go away? Wow. Difficult.

>>105597008 (OP)
yeah, goes double now with computers and phones.
the technological society is an excess in solipsism.

>>105600299
Or I simply ignore the door bell and they go away themselves.

>>105597475
Truth.
>>105598521
OK, boomer.
>>105600063
Based.

>>105597008 (OP)
>WAAAAA WHY WON'T PEOPLE TALK TO ME IT MUST BE THAT NEWFANGLED TECHNOLOGY!
Okay boomer.

>>105597475
self actualizing in atomization does no one any good

>narcissism, detachment, and rude behavior
lmao
This was writen by the same person that tries to do small talk with you when you are reading a book.
Leave me alone you fucking retard.

I don't know if it started at that point but alphas definitely need to have more social interactions. Societies cannot function without some basic level of conformity

>The Book was the first of a long line of mobile devices to attract criticism for isolating its users, promoting narcissism, detachment, and rude behavior, while at the same time preventing interactions that are the basis for traditional place-based communities.
Were those old people right?

>>105597008 (OP)
Before the walkman, niggers would walk around blasting their monkey music to everyone, so it's just yet another example of the white man (japs are honorary whites) inventing something to segregate himself from the primitive, bestial culture of the brown man.

>>105597008 (OP)
pass, can I have a technology question please

>boomer: talks about stuff for 10 minutes straight
>zoomer: *removes one airpod* what?

>>105597008 (OP)
No. I wish everyone used one and we'd have public transport like in Japan where everyone is silent and shuts the fuck up.

>>105600795
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZKLna8qSQ4

Peace and quiet.

>>105600572
That's essentially Don Quixote's premise

>>105599236
But actually: fuck newspapers; fuck cameras; fuck radio; fuck tv; fuck walkmen; fuck the internet; fuck smartphones; they are all god awful, and the only thing that makes one worse than the other is how seriously people take it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT6vxtA3DnE

>>105599236
>>105600945

Yes you actually should and just listen to Birdsong.

>>105597008 (OP)
No, I don't want to engage with retards I don't even know in public.

>>105600808
must be nice to live in a place that has public transport where niggers blasting shit on their phones and vaping isn't the norm. makes me sad i can't have that.

>>105601079
Where do you live?

>>105601104
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When I lived in Honolulu it was full of people begging for money. Having headphones on repelled most of them. So I never took them off. I am introverted as is. I don't want to be bothered. I don't use my phone constantly in public or anything but it's there for me if I'm bored. If someone is making small talk with me I don't usually consider that being bothered but I don't want to be hit up for money or have someone trying to sell me shit. I want peace.

>>105597008 (OP) Nah. Anyone with brains would notice a big change if people stop listening to their environment. It's only logical.

>>105597008 (OP)
They're the same people who complain every time someone doesn't use headphones in public.
It's projection. Often they're the rude people.

>>105597008 (OP)
old people are almost never right. I am a huge tradition fag and I had to learn this the hard way. most of them lost the reasoning to comprehend why they think the things they do. they cant explain why an idea is a good one to you, just make fun of your retarded bad ideas. they rarely are ever personable whatsoever and lack critical polite niceties that are necessary for convincing people you aren't a narcissist. whenever such a situation occurs that they are in the wrong they are incapable of observing it and admitting to it.
and lastly and most importantly, to deal with the grief of every one of their relationships being set fire by their own malice and incompetence, they are constantly searching for targets to blame for their own actions.

In short this is not TL:DR, this is a gravity well of decay pulling you down. READ IT AND AVOID BECOMING THIS OR WE WILL BE BOOMERS2 ELETRIC BOOGALOOO

>>105600795
Why do they wear the mask?

>>105597008 (OP)
newspapers in the 1900s had the same effect.

Narcisism and rude behavior are the norm, the disease of society
Isolation and detachment are responses, symptoms
I wish more people were capable of isolating in silence and let others enjoy peace and quiet. Most people out there are not worth interacting with anyway. I do have meaningful conversations with strangers from time to time but it is a good thing to let others look at you and know you enjoy your peace.