Every Place Is the Same Now
Found on The Atlantic on Sunday, 19 January 2020
Anywhere has become as good as anywhere else. The office is a suitable place for tapping out emails, but so is the bed, or the toilet. You can watch television in the den—but also in the car, or at the coffee shop, turning those spaces into impromptu theaters.
Nowhere feels especially remarkable, and every place adopts the pleasures and burdens of every other.
Thus all places become dull, boring and lifeless. Put your smartphone away and raise your eyes to actually see how different places can be.