This is my cuckoo theory of phones: like how cuckoo birds lay their eggs in reed warbler nests so that their chick (which hatches first) can push the warbler eggs out of the nest, phone use (especially social media) is like brood parasitism - it pushes out our important activities like being active, creative, and intentional, so that we feed all our attention to the imposter
The cuckoo is pushing your vocabulary, attention span, and motivation to do hard things out of your nest
The cuckoo is also where the word cuckoldry comes from, originally in the 1200s meaning to raise another man’s child, but now generally means to watch someone else live in your place - phones cuck us out of our own lives, every time you watch someone’s grwm or day in the life you’re watching someone else enjoy themselves instead of enjoying your own time