Are We Living in the Age of Rude?

Maybe it’s just me

Photo by Mitya Ivanov on Unsplash

Modern life is loud, self-absorbed, and seemingly allergic to awareness.

Here’s a short list of things I now consider rude — and yes, it’s getting longer.

Digital Intrusion

I think it’s rude when you get together with someone and they start scrolling through social media on their phone during a natural pause in conversation. Stop for a breath, they’re already nose-deep in the screen. Go to the loo, come back to the walking dead.

Worse still is when they begin the next convo about some fucking post made by a semi-well-known blogger with a dedicated following of lazy mothers who want to know how she feeds her entire spawn from a singular spaghetti bowl to avoid washing the dishes.

I don’t care what some hippie who obviously needs a good shower thinks about Charlie Kirk’s shooting, and I’m definitely not interested in discussing it.

Please don’t read me a post.

“Ah, right,” I’ll say. “Hmm…”

Somewhere along the way, we stopped talking to each other and started talking at screens.

Anyway…

The Staging of Connection