u/DharmaBaller

So I spend a fair amount of time hanging around OSU campus riding around on my bike and just hanging out a lunch and what not . What's alarming to me is the amount of students who are walking across crosswalk and just everywhere staring at their phone and also the fact that 90% of the people walking around solo have headphones on . All these people in their own little screen verse cut off from others around them and the natural environment .

I'm aware that Millennials are also pretty sucked into the screen and their smartphones but I think something is really off with the Gen Z cohort because these are the kids raised from early age with smartphones and social media and went through covid as middle school and high schoolers and just something is not right .

There is this joke about the Gen Z stare and I honestly think it's a combination of all the above literally rotting their brain out and making their response time to visual and auditory Behavior to other humans either subdued or slowed or just something bizarrely off for a lot of these young folks .

If you are constantly fiddling with your screen texting someone or changing your musical playlist , that's about the complete opposite of mindfully existing in the present moment and it really shows .

I'm curious if anyone in here has a background in the kind of barefooting Primal movements natural human movements physiology Etc .

After taking a few years off from cycling I got back into it and in more of the local Bike Co-op used Market and been having some issues with bike fit and knee pain , and some of that might be mechanical issues but I have a sneaking suspicion that maybe there is something going on with bike ergonomics in general that people aren't discussing openly.

I say this mostly because if you ask a bunch of cyclists they aren't necessarily going to be disparaging their Hobby or undermining their mode of transport if they are heavily reliant on it .

We may take it for granted that the human body wasn't necessarily designed to be doing 85 RPM on a object with two wheels and a saddle. I wonder if this is one reason why we have so many stories about weird fit issues , and things like even pressure points issues with the hands and wrists , not to mention the back and neck issues with more aggressive posture bikes .

Look at how folks often shift to recumbent in later life as well. Is that pointing at an inherent flaw of bicycle design that hasn't changed much in many decades?