Phones Can’t Trap Us

A gun doesn’t become notorious because it is made out of metal.

A gun is just a commodity that is man-made.

Nicolas Cage is not the Lord of War if there are no wars.

Simply, selling weapons creates such conditions for war.

Drugs did not become a problem until laws permitted it.

Should we then ban democracy if it is such a system that allows drugs to be legal?

So recently, when I was traveling around the globe, I often saw banners, PSAs, or healthcare ads warning us not to get trapped by our phones.

“Look up,” the ads said, “and see the beautiful world, d1”

If we put our perspective back to the end of feudal society and to the rise of towns (pre-Capitalism), we would find the transformation