Season: Conspicuous Convictions
Speaker: Jonny Rashid
Location: 2007 Frankford Ave.
About Talk: Human beings are pack animals. Millennials are receptacles of baby boomer contempt, and one of the things we get crushed with is being obsessed with our phones. Some Luddites think the phone is killing community, and it may very well be, but it’s causing a death through re-appropriation more than anything. Because people are still trying to connect online. They are alone, but they are alone together. People meet people on dating websites. They connect on Facebook and Instagram. They share intimate photos and their lives together. They are trying to love their friends and share with them. So from another vantage point, people seem to want community, and get pretty close to it. We want to invite more people into it. It’s authentic and real around here, and that’s a good thing.