Gary Shteyngart
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And is it that, have the last 26, 25 years, 30 years, have they been really that great in terms of just life?
Let me bring it down.
I know that perhaps if you're living somewhere, if you're living in Kenya, far away from Nairobi, and you have a cell phone, a new technology, right?
That's really helping you in a way that not having a cell phone would have hurt you 30 years ago.
But at the same time,
This is not a happy life that's been wrought by these wonderful industrialists who create screens and algorithms that make us, you know, that have destroyed my life to a very large extent.
I write at a much slower clip.
I don't write as introspectively as I used to.
I am as addicted to.
And by the way, please follow me at Steingart on Twitter, Instagram, Blue Sky, Substack.
I mean, it never ends.
Right.
This never ends.
So why are you on them then?
Well, it's part of the marketing.
Is it?
Absolutely.
It helps.
You're a big deal, man.
Do you actually need to be there?