I think herd mentality has a lot to do with it. If you're at an event with nine other people and all nine of them pull out their phone, do you feel a little weird for not like, oh, well, plainly, i should be recording this as well? You have the norm effect, like, wet. Everyone's doing it. And i do think there are some valid questions to ask about why we do it. There's probably a good reason their doing it. Ting bad might happen if i don't do it. The safer thing, as it were, is to just whip out the phone. I'm not much for pageantry, i have to tell you

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