There are a few pictures going around at the moment, all pointing out – as if we did not know already – how obsessed we have become with our mobile phones. One of those is particularly striking. It shows a bunch of teenagers in an art gallery, all in deep cellphone trance, oblivious to the striking beauty of a sublime painting hanging lonely on a wall behind.
At face value, that picture is one that illicits all the kind of self righteous tut-tuttings associated with today’s youth, their supposed self-obsession and the usual it-wasn’t-like-this-in-my-days. Well, call me naïve if you want, but instead of an advertisement against the ills of social media, I personally saw in that pic a
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