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Completely agree with your comment on People 👍, but my score would be 2/10. I can't _stand_ 😤phones on dance floors or anywhere in event spaces (Coachella, Berghain, Kitkat, similar). OK, rant part over. More broadly, and more reflectively (if that doesn't sound too pompous), I see lots of photo-taking in places of worship/awe (like event spaces I've mentioned earlier, nature, other awe-inspiring settings) as taking energy from these settings rather than giving our presence, our energy to these settings. At the same time, even though it may seem counterintuitive, just based on my experience, it seems that when we take energy from settings through constant snapping of photos, this energy is just dissipated for everyone. _We_ don't gain this energy, and our energy is also dissipated. When I want to be fully present and imbibe the energies that I feel all settings always give out, I don't take photos. It's... magical. 🩵 love your posts.

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