In Defense of Laptops in Coffee Shops

As Capitalism has accelerated and technology has developed exponentially we are now experiencing the effects of homogenisation faster and further than ever. There’s a mass loss of identity. Social media spreads the same values globally, nudging diverse populations toward similar lifestyles. One consequence of globally shared ideals and tastes is that everything is beginning to look the same.

We are losing obscurity, and without obscurity, culture can’t thicken into something meaningful. Homogenisation isn’t caused by a lack of difference, but by too much shallow exposure to it.