![]() ![]() Some reached out when I got off the iPhone and said, ‘I don’t like texting with you anymore because your texts are green.’ That told me a lot.” Now it takes work for me to maintain friendships. Jameson Butler, a student in a Black Flag T-shirt who was carving a piece of wood with a pocketknife, explained: “I’ve weeded out who I want to be friends with. “I hear there’s talk of it spreading at Brooklyn Tech,” someone else said.Ī few members took a moment to extol the benefits of going Luddite. “I just held the first successful Luddite meeting at Beacon,” said Biruk Watling, a senior at Beacon High School in Manhattan, who uses a green-painted flip phone with a picture of a Fugees-era Lauryn Hill pasted to it. Founded last year by another Murrow High School student, Logan Lane, the club is named after Ned Ludd, the folkloric 18th-century English textile worker who supposedly smashed up a mechanized loom, inspiring others to take up his name and riot against industrialization. It’s like 12 pages now.”īriefly, the club members discussed how the spreading of their Luddite gospel was going. “When I got my flip phone, things instantly changed,” Lola continued. ![]() Social media and phones are not real life.” “We’ve all got this theory that we’re not just meant to be confined to buildings and work. “Lots of us have read this book called ‘Into the Wild,’” said Lola Shub, a senior at Essex Street Academy, referring to Jon Krakauer’s 1996 nonfiction book about the nomad Chris McCandless, who died while trying to live off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. We don’t keep in touch with each other, so you have to show up.”Īfter the club members gathered logs to form a circle, they sat and withdrew into a bubble of serenity. “We’re here every Sunday, rain or shine, even snow. “It’s a little frowned on if someone doesn’t show up,” Odille said. Murrow High School in Midwood, who trudged through leaves in Doc Martens and mismatched wool socks. Among them was Odille Zexter-Kaiser, a senior at Edward R. They marched up a hill toward their usual spot, a dirt mound located far from the park’s crowds. As the dozen teens headed into Prospect Park, they hid away their iPhones - or, in the case of the most devout members, their flip phones, which some had decorated with stickers and nail polish. ![]() On a brisk recent Sunday, a band of teenagers met on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to start the weekly meeting of the Luddite Club, a high school group that promotes a lifestyle of self-liberation from social media and technology. ![]()
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