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I don't think you understand what anxiety is if you think being totally unreachable as a solution to modern anxiety...
I'm gonna venture he means being totally unreachable...
... by your boss on your day off.
Nah. "Young people have never experienced what it's like to have privacy. To leave the house and be totally unreachable..."
That is explicitly what OP said. To be totally unreachable in the literal sense can easily be a source of anxiety on its own.
Ah I see, yeah you're right!
That is something that occurs to me too. It's weird to me now, imagining couples separating to go to work or whatever, and you just gotta believe everything is gonna be fine, and if there were an emergency, someone has to be near the right landline.
Although I grew up with earlier cellphones and pagers, I got my first cell way later than a lot of highschool kids.
But yes, definitely, If me and my wife couldn't reach each other during the day, that'd be a ton of anxiety! The world's too insane these days to not have rapid communication on hand.
I only wish technology evolved as a tool for the user and the people, rather than primarily as content consumption and surveillance devices.
Then it would be more normal to have a setup like we do: We chat on Signal and can send our location voluntarily and it stays between us, without a dozen third parties quietly listening in, analyzing, and selling that information.
I do however, think there would also be a certain serene peace in being unreachable by undesirable contacts but not by loved ones.
For example, it's dystopian how non-emergency jobs evolved to expect that they can just zip a message to you whenever they feel like, and you're almost coerced to receive it and respond, and setting boundaries against that can be risky. It brings an unwanted cop or nanny into our personal lives.