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You're not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.
But ultimately what's most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don't do that you're going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.
It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.
Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It's a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.
If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I'm certainly planning to (although it's also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).
I can say you've probably spoken for me in this post.
I'm old enough to be that guy that wants less people in his life. I'm fine with what little friends I have, my family and my dog's. The rest is noise, and I'll deal with it only if I want to, otherwise, there's plenty of animé, books and documentaries I can fill my solo time with, for the rest, I'll always have the main 3 I mentioned.
I guess I did turn into that "grumpy old guy" I 🤣🤣