>>724517451
my idea is that people can't deal with loneliness because they are super connected all the time.
Note that 99% of these "liminal" things are nothing more than fucking empty places. The inexplicable feeling that young people say they feel when they see these images is the old feeling of loneliness.
In the past, you would spend several hours, or depending on the situation, several days, whithout manage to communicate with your acquaintances. Today, you are always a second away from communicating with anyone, because everyone carries devices that are connected 100% of the time and capable of exchanging instant messages.
People growing up in the world of the Internet cannot even conceive of the idea of total isolation, and anything that makes them think remotely about it, such as empty backrooms, makes them feel a primal terror.

I've been playing a lot of A-Train lately, and I love this mix of chaos and order that is typical of Japanese urbanism.