Alain de Botton on Twitter last night:
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
Then he added another a few minutes later:
True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
Which reminds me of Scott Simpson’s tweet from a few years ago:
My new standard of cool: when I’m hanging out with you, I never see your phone ever ever ever.
Amen.
“Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.”
