Completely agree with your comment on People 👍, but my score would be 2/10. I can't _stand_ 😤phones on dance floors or anywhere in event spaces (Coachella, Berghain, Kitkat, similar). OK, rant part over. More broadly, and more reflectively (if that doesn't sound too pompous), I see lots of photo-taking in places of worship/awe (like event spaces I've mentioned earlier, nature, other awe-inspiring settings) as taking energy from these settings rather than giving our presence, our energy to these settings. At the same time, even though it may seem counterintuitive, just based on my experience, it seems that when we take energy from settings through constant snapping of photos, this energy is just dissipated for everyone. _We_ don't gain this energy, and our energy is also dissipated. When I want to be fully present and imbibe the energies that I feel all settings always give out, I don't take photos. It's... magical. 🩵 love your posts.
I am militantly anti-phone for proper dancefloors. Can't stand them. They destroy the safety that is required for self expression, and they turn active participants into passive audiences. It's a theft of energy, and I find dancefloors with heavy phone use to be vastly inferior to dancefloors where cameras are banned. Totally aligned with you.
The phone situation has gotten really bad at Coachella and I think it ultimately harms Coachella's reputation as a great party. With a camera ban, the festival would be far better, but we all know that's not going to happen.
Thank you for the great comment and for being a reader of my posts!
Completely agree with your comment on People 👍, but my score would be 2/10. I can't _stand_ 😤phones on dance floors or anywhere in event spaces (Coachella, Berghain, Kitkat, similar). OK, rant part over. More broadly, and more reflectively (if that doesn't sound too pompous), I see lots of photo-taking in places of worship/awe (like event spaces I've mentioned earlier, nature, other awe-inspiring settings) as taking energy from these settings rather than giving our presence, our energy to these settings. At the same time, even though it may seem counterintuitive, just based on my experience, it seems that when we take energy from settings through constant snapping of photos, this energy is just dissipated for everyone. _We_ don't gain this energy, and our energy is also dissipated. When I want to be fully present and imbibe the energies that I feel all settings always give out, I don't take photos. It's... magical. 🩵 love your posts.
I am militantly anti-phone for proper dancefloors. Can't stand them. They destroy the safety that is required for self expression, and they turn active participants into passive audiences. It's a theft of energy, and I find dancefloors with heavy phone use to be vastly inferior to dancefloors where cameras are banned. Totally aligned with you.
The phone situation has gotten really bad at Coachella and I think it ultimately harms Coachella's reputation as a great party. With a camera ban, the festival would be far better, but we all know that's not going to happen.
Thank you for the great comment and for being a reader of my posts!