Anti-Social Behavior Didn't Start with Smartphones

...because relationships are hard, and we also love our alone time, just fartin' around, tinkering away with something or doing nothing. Our basic instinct is to survive, so it's easy to distrust others. We want pleasure/relationships but not at great cost nor risk mentally, physically or monetarily. So, you get a bag o' cheetos, hop on the internet and rub one out. Hey, we wanted this. It's "safe", it's a tidal pool, it's affordable, it's a substitute for living in an already greedy, cruel, heartless, and antisocial society. It's a bubble. This is normal human behavior; a normal human reaction to the craziness out there. Technology just gave us the means to "switch off", especially at looney times like nowadays. We've gone subterranean, we're broke, maybe we don't know how to love, maybe we were abused and traumatized. After all, we were born and raised in an imperial civilization by mostly shitty parents. Maybe that's why we're so fucked up and in desperate need for escapism, yet we don't see the trap there within civilization; to slave away, buy something for the pain but never cut the chain and actually live, because we were never shown how to live. We were taught to be machines for an oligarch. That doesn't sound social to me.