engagement

Being offline is currently an online trend, or something. As you may have noticed, and as I realised this morning, I haven't written anything in over a month. The internet, what a place with lots of things in it. Imperfects we are cartographers reminded me of an idea I had while watching Toy Story 5. In the film, the main child that most of the toys belong to plays with toys and uses her imagination, this is a juxtaposition to litterally every other child that spends every waking second staring at the fictional worlds equivalent of an iPad. Which is of course a hyperbole but it's a peice of children's fiction we are meant to analyse the motif not the individual scenes, I think? Now what actually is it that all the kids are doing? In the film we can see that they play 1 game on it and use a group chat and a social media feed... So they are doing one thing. What is Bonnie doing? Using her imagination to create a story with her toys. So what makes playing with toys developmentally better…