There's a big misconception about mobile phones and driving, and it's putting us at risk
There's a big misconception about mobile phones and driving, and it's putting us at risk
A road toll rise in parts of Australia has experts worried that we are going backwards on road safety.
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I can’t believe the amount of people who are arguing over this.
If you are in control of 1.5 tonnes of something travelling at 60km/h you should;
- concentrate on what you are doing, exclusively!
- not get into physical argument with someone else in control of 1.5 tonnes of something.
If you are emotionally unable to leave your fucking phone alone, you shouldn’t be fucking driving!
Its a good thing everyone who shouldnt be driving can just decide to not drive and will not have their lives destroyed as a result!
No that is a problem with our society that we can do something about.
Unfortunately there are too many dinosaurs fighting for FrEeDoM and preventing any progress on Walkable Neighbourhoods.
is it the people who are currently old who are doing that? or is a system that creates people to perpetuate the system which does that?
You don’t have to be an old person to be regressive.
In my opinion, the people with the most world experience have always been the most progressive. It is a shame that The Silent Generation were not able to pass on their knowledge and experience to the current batch of misguided Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X and boomers who want things to be like they were in “The Old Days”, even though they don’t know how terrible “The Old Days” actually were.
My point was generations are not a viable way of expressing political issues, it’s capitalism the system not the dudes in charge
It is a shame that The Silent Generation were not able to pass on their knowledge and experience to the current batch of misguided Millennials, Gen Y, Gen X and boomers
They would have, but the Silent Generation (born between 1928-1945), born and raised in a period of extreme mass unemployment, starvation, and death in the form of the Great Depression (1929-1939) followed immediately by World War II (1939-1945), took out their trauma on their Boomer offspring, so any lessons or messages they might have been trying to convey were lost in the cacophony of abuse. Keep in mind their parents, the so-called "Greatest Generation" (1901-1924), also survived the Great War (1914-1918) prior to that and already had a really warped view of the world. That's a lot of generational trauma heaped onto the Boomers, both directly and indirectly.
Those fuckin Boomer kids suffered through some pretty horrific abuse; they never stood a chance, man. It wasn't at all acceptable to talk about mental issues or even entertain the idea of asking for help (a norm established by their Silent Gen parents), so as they grew up they just buried that shit and went into eternal denial mode. Worse, they reinforced their fucked up worldviews by abusing their own kids, the Gen Xers and Millennials, who in turn passed on that same generational trauma to...sigh, you get my point. I mean, each generation does seem to get a little better at shedding that old toxic "stop complaining / fuck you, I got mine" mindset, but it's a slow process. Look at how far-reaching that shit is, FFS. That "Greatest Trauma" period was a hundred years ago, and we're still suffering from the effects.
TL;DR they were incapable because trauma
For sure, but also phone have been deliberately engineered on the hardware and software level to be as addicting and habit forming as possible.
From attention grabbing chimes (not insane, you want to know when you're messaged normally) to notification spam to superstimuli applications. We need to shift some responsibility on manufacturers for exploiting holes in human psychology.
Anti litter campaigns get you so far, putting bins everywhere gets you further. Work safety videos get you so far, lock out tag out systems take you further