The view of life through smartphone apps that have automatically adjusting skinner boxes purposely designed to get you addicted ("""engaged""" they call it) and have you churn through rage bait and """content""" is the least authentic depiction of reality that has ever existed, maybe only behind minstrel shows.

It's like when people call video slot machines "video games". No, not even close.

I doubt there is a true representation of life. Life is a product of the things.

People compare 80’s with now. They are not the same and humans alter around the stimulus.