“Man, I spend too much time on my phone, maybe I’ll check out a contemporary novel”
*opens book*
“He scrolled on his phone through the night and into the morning, bored, disgusted, aroused, and went to work texting in traffic, and why do they call it a phone, really”
You know that culture is dead because no one successfully reckons with phones in film and literature. It’s like having westerns without the railroad. Phones and phone culture should be what 90% of movies and books are about.