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Louis C.K. Hates Cell Phones | CONAN on TBS

Team Coco · 14.9M views · 2013-09-20 · 4:51

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Louis C.K. on Conan explains why he won't give his kids cell phones. He argues that phones keep people from sitting with sadness and being alone with their thoughts, and that kids lose empathy when they cannot see another person's reaction.

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Commenters bring it up in threads on phones, boredom, attention and children's screen use as a funny but resonant take.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2013–2021

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Apocryphon · 2021-06 · Recommendation

The best interpretation of this post is in its warnings against digital submersion, but when it veers into cultural critique it itself is being very middlebrow and dismissive ("just listen to classical music! Modern music sucks!") There is a good post in here about how externalizing negative emotion to the internet is indeed addictive behavior, an emotional crutch. Unfortunately this one ain't it. Not to mention it's hardly breaking new ground with this thesis- pre-cancellation Louis C.K. arrived at the same conclusion much more concisely nearly a decade ago: [VIDEO]

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jonplackett · 2021-06 · Recommendation

This reminds me of a clip of Louis CK talking about losing the ability to just sit with your own thoughts and be really sad. [VIDEO] Shame he turned out to be a sexual deviant because he said some interesting things.

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whitepaint · 2021-04 · Recommendation

Everyone's insane so I must be as well. Come on man. I totally agree with the OP, take personal responsibility. You raise your children not Zuck. Louis CK had great comments about this: [VIDEO]

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