I Hate Smartphone and Postmodern Digital Culture So Damn Much

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:02]All right, everyone. It's time to talk about smartphone culture. I've touched on this in brief before. I wanted to flesh it out a little bit more. I [ __ ] hate smartphone culture. I viscerally, strongly, absolutely, completely hate smartphone culture and uh connected culture in general because it's all a bunch of [ __ ] You need your smartphone to log into your bank account to pay for your food. And everyone when they go to a restaurant and and I've had this experience before and I'm sitting there.

[00:00:39]I want to punch myself in the goddamn head when this happens. Or just stand up and leave and say, "Look, you're going to have to take care of the tab. You're being too goddamn annoying. Bye. I I don't want to talk to you anymore because you're you're retarded." You go to a restaurant, right? You sit down.

[00:00:58]You order your drinks, you order your food. Wow, food's on its way. You want to make a little bit of small talk, you know, and I'm not a very interpersonal person, so to speak. I'm very, very introverted. But when I'm in that kind of setting, if I've consented to go out in public and I want to sit in a restaurant with you or something, I expect to be able to communicate with you. Instead, I find that I'm communicating with a brick wall, waiting for my food to show up while a person scrolls on YouTube or something like that. Interpersonal. You're in a person, you're at a person's house. Back in the '9s, what happens if a couple of buds show up at the house? Man, let's order pizza. We'll smoke some weed, too, and we're going to play Super Mario and shoot the ship. They're interacting with one another. They're having fun. You know, competitive gaming used to be more of a thing apparently than it is today.

[00:01:57]Now, what happens? They're just on their phones sitting there. That's the only thing that they're doing. They're just looking at Facebook reels or I don't even know what they're called. I don't use Facebook. Facebook slides and Instagram reels or whatever the hell they're called and doom posting and stuff like that. They don't have any interpersonal skills at all. It's pretty sad that a lot of people have less interpersonal skills than me. We'll put it that way. I'm still capable of holding a long conversation with a person who happens to be sitting next to me. Apparently, this makes me a very very small minority member. I feel I feel like some endangered species or something like that sometimes. Oh my god. You don't have your phone out. Did you see the latest news? No, I was busy eating this hot dog. Well, man, it was so cool, man. All right, you can show me after I'm done with my [ __ ] hot dog, you [ __ ] bastard [ __ ] Uh, that's the way that I feel, honestly. Sometimes people will be sitting next to you.

[00:03:11]You'll be sitting on the couch next to one of your friends or something like that and uh you know trying to talk, but their nose is buried in their phone and they won't even respond to you. They become zombies. They're completely nonresponsive.

[00:03:26]They don't even respond to basic conversation. Ask them a question. Uh you'll be asking for a little while, you know, say, "Hey, what do you think about this?" Now, they're too busy looking at something else. I find this to be disheartening. I I do not find this healthy. Now, do I believe that it should be banned? Like some European countries are saying, well, the youth should not be able to use their electronics for more than a couple of hours a day and you know, stupid [ __ ] like that. Number one, they're going to get around it, so screw yourself. Number two, I don't believe in banning things.

[00:04:01]If they want to be retards, then let them be retards is my ethos. But I'm not going to interact with them. Once I find out that they're a smartphone obsessed [ __ ] I won't talk to them anymore.

[00:04:14]I'm not interested in going to the goddamn restaurant with you. I They'll just go myself, you know? I'm not talking to you anyway. Maybe somebody else in this restaurant. Oh, wait. Uh, [ __ ] All of them have their noses in their goddamn phones. I'm the only one in here. The goddamn chef is checking his smartphone while he's flipping the burgers. Uh yeah, good enough. That's it's moronic.

[00:04:41]It doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how people can waste their entire life looking through the lens of other people's lives cuz and that's the other problem. That's most of what they're watching. It's not like somebody whips out their phone and they put on a documentary about seaish or something like that. Oh, they did. Here's a starfish documentary. That's going to be cool. Okay. Well, that's something that at least is educational. I still would prefer you not watch that while you're eating next to me. You know, you're probably maybe you're eating seafood.

[00:05:18]Okay. Then maybe it's allowable for humor's sake or something like that. But most of the time it's this cringe goddamn [ __ ] And I [ __ ] hate it. And I'm not going to hold back on this one because that's exactly what it is.

[00:05:35]Talentless corporate slop. That's all that you're getting. I put a music track on a video of me doing something that requires no talent whatsoever. Hey, I'm chopping up cheese. Wow. Yeah, I've never done that before. I Here I am putting peanut butter on these crackers or something like that. Hm. Here's how to make cute cutouts for Christmas. Hey, it involves scissors and fabric. You know, get a life, dude. Uh, you consider that to be a form of talent, then, you know, more power to you. I I hope that when you're in back in your halfway house, I hope that you're happy with your creation when you're back in the note ward. Uh, that being said, though, it's it's just talentless. And then they'll have a caption at the bottom.

[00:06:30]Usually they'll have captions at the bottom that tell you, you know, what they're saying or what they're doing.

[00:06:36]And it's like, oh, first you take the scissors, then you cut here, then you cut here, then you cut here, then you cut here. Oh my goodness, look at how nice that looks. What the [ __ ] you talking about, dude? There used to be a time when vlogging required actual talent. That time has now long since passed, my friend. I think Tik Tok killed it more than anything else. Um, now it's I mean it's people jumping around with cat masks and showing off their shitty food and lots of jump cuts and stuff like that. I hate smartphone culture. I hate how it enables people to take the same cringe that already was on the internet, but it was at least it was cordoned off because people didn't always have to carry their [ __ ] smartphones around. So, back then it was, hey, you know, I go to my office and I turn on my computer, then I can see the cringe. I can see the stupid [ __ ] that I want to see. And the stupid [ __ ] was more talented and way more funny. By the way, I don't want to sound like an old fogy, but things were a lot edgier back then than they are now. Now, most of it is G-rated. Uh, which is sad as well. You can't even find the uh the R-rated stuff. It's sad. What am I supposed to watch somebody, you know, stir frying garbanzo beans or something like that? Yeah, I'm going to look that up. In fact, I'll look that up later just as a joke. I'm sure that there are at least a few videos actually of that on YouTube alone. There's probably others around the internet floating around as well. The fact is that the rise of smartphone culture and the constant constant reliance upon smartphones has made it impossible to have interpersonal conversations, impossible to have interpersonal interactions. people will they'll be at a major event like look at New York City for example, New York City um on the 4th of July. They're going to have their testicle drop from the sky.

[00:08:49]More people will have their phones out recording it than will be actually watching it. So you're going to get a million different shots of the testicle dropping, but nobody's actually enjoying the testicle dropping. They're going to do the same thing. Fourth of July elsewhere, you know, in in DC and elsewhere, they're going to do the same thing. They're more interested in recording something than actually experiencing it. They don't they don't experience anything. It's impossible for them to do it. They just they can't sit still long enough. Their attention span is that of a fly. Um, which which is not very long, by the way. Uh, 10 seconds.

[00:09:32]That's probably about as long as it gets. Like somebody will be eating their meal. It can be succulent, delicious. Oh [ __ ] it's the best meal I ever had.

[00:09:42]First, I'm going to take a picture of it. Okay, that's fine. You took a picture of your meal. Maybe later you post it on some social media sites. You don't need to do that when you're actually eating it. So, put the [ __ ] phone down. But they can't. They'll start eating it. Oh, this is so great.

[00:10:02]Oh, I need to tweet about how great this is. Oh. Oh, this is great. Oh, you were saying something. You're trying to get a point in and they will not talk to you.

[00:10:13]They will not even know what you said most of the time. This is the majority of people, by the way, in the Western world. It's pathetic. It's sad and pathetic. It speaks of weakness, decadence, and stupidity. A lack of mental awareness that runs so deep that I'm surprised these people can even tie their goddamn shoes sometimes.

[00:10:38]Oh, I mean, put the [ __ ] phone down.

[00:10:41]If I owned a restaurant, I would have a little cubby area and I would say, "When you come into my restaurant, your phone is locked in a Faraday cage. It will not receive or send signals. You will receive a slip to receive it back after you are done with your [ __ ] meal.

[00:11:00]That's what I would do. I'd do this with any business that I owned. You want to come in here? You're leaving your phone behind. That's what should be done.

[00:11:10]That's about all.

[00:11:12]Peace out.