{"id":16593,"date":"2024-11-16T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/turns-out-the-zombie-apocalypse-isnt-as-fun-as-they-said-it-would-be-rebecca-solnit-on-our-dangerously-disconnected-world\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T10:37:50","slug":"turns-out-the-zombie-apocalypse-isnt-as-fun-as-they-said-it-would-be-rebecca-solnit-on-our-dangerously-disconnected-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/16\/turns-out-the-zombie-apocalypse-isnt-as-fun-as-they-said-it-would-be-rebecca-solnit-on-our-dangerously-disconnected-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn\u2019t as fun as they said it would be \u2013 Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world"},"content":{"rendered":"

A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present \u2013 had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it\u2019s started already\u2026<\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s home. Not in the young woman with the big headphones cycling against the light. Not in the person in the middle of the crossing staring at their phone, or the person talking to someone who\u2019s not there and ignoring the one they\u2019re pushing in the baby carriage, or the distracted driver who doesn\u2019t seem to notice those cyclists and pedestrians. So I move through a world of people who are not all the way there and sometimes hardly there at all \u2013 and who don\u2019t seem to want anyone else to be there either.<\/p>\n

Aversion to direct contact with others has become so normal in my home town \u2013 San Francisco, a city swallowed up by Silicon Valley \u2013 that I\u2019ve become avoidant myself after too many encounters with people who seem to find it bafflingly transgressive to engage with any casual remark or question from a stranger, and mostly fail to respond. I wander in a city that feels ghostly, depopulated, even when bodies are on the street, and I feel like a ghost myself in the lack of acknowledgment, in others\u2019 blank reluctance to utter even those tiny \u201cexcuse me\u201d negotiations to get around someone or warn someone.<\/p>\n

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\nA population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present \u2013 had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it\u2019s started already\u2026
\nNobody\u2019s home. Not in the young woman with the big headphones cycling against the light. Not in the person in the middle of the crossing staring at their phone, or the person talking to someone who\u2019s not there and ignoring the one they\u2019re pushing in the baby carriage, or the distracted driver who doesn\u2019t seem to notice those cyclists and pedestrians. So I move through a world of people who are not all the way there and sometimes hardly there at all \u2013 and who don\u2019t seem to want anyone else to be there either.
\nAversion to direct contact with others has become so normal in my home town \u2013 San Francisco, a city swallowed up by Silicon Valley \u2013 that I\u2019ve become avoidant myself after too many encounters with people who seem to find it bafflingly transgressive to engage with any casual remark or question from a stranger, and mostly fail to respond. I wander in a city that feels ghostly, depopulated, even when bodies are on the street, and I feel like a ghost myself in the lack of acknowledgment, in others\u2019 blank reluctance to utter even those tiny \u201cexcuse me\u201d negotiations to get around someone or warn someone. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present \u2013 had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it\u2019s started already\u2026 Nobody\u2019s home. Not in the young woman with the big headphones cycling against the light. Not in the person in the …<\/p>\n

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