The only thing left to do is continue the applause for news’s logout duo who have managed without a smartphone for over a year. Yes, you heard that right, a whole year. 52 weeks. 365 days. And they won’t give up anytime soon either. That it works! That’s how we hold our breath. It is perhaps difficult to understand what kind of achievement this is. In comparison, Fridtjof Nansen spent 6 weeks crossing Greenland, and the wintering near Godthåb lasted 8 months. Amundsen went to the South Pole, and it took almost 3 months round trip. He was probably tired, but we all are these days. So what exactly was the test of strength here? It may not be so easy to see with modern eyes, because the real test of strength in today’s society is not to be done. But not to do. It’s about giving up. It’s masturbation-free month, white month, meat-free month, sleep with your mouth taped again, don’t eat. Eating disorders are when women don’t eat, it’s a disease. Fasting is something completely different, it is self-control, shows that you are building a character reminiscent of steel. And all you have to do is sign up for “Game of Thrones”, if it becomes a reality series. So you are strong, not weak! Another trend has been to resist the temptation to use screens on planes. 20 hours without a screen (is it possible?) Now we’ve got the ultra exercise: be logged out for a year. This has become a test of strength, despite the fact that being logged out was completely normal 15 years ago. Then we all were. But now that everyone has their face hanging over a screen, it actually takes a man to step to this work of denial, and stand broad-legged in it. Therefore, news has had thorough coverage on all its platforms of the project of Sven Bisgård Sundet, who psychologically chose to embark on this logging trip. An experiment so far-fetched that news has followed him for a year. Because how would this go? The result was a six-hour long documentary which, ironically, you can watch on screen. But what is such a test of strength without a companion? Even Nansen and Amundsen had crews and cheerleaders. Sven Bisgård Sundet has brought his friend and colleague Mike Stilson on this “expedition”. In an hour-long interview on P2, he was accused of being a “logout companion”. Maybe it could be the new word of the year? To be left alone to say no to Insta, Snap, Spond, Finn, Face, is nothing but bone-chilling. It requires its man. But perhaps it also requires its woman? I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard about this logout project. I was at home in the kitchen, over the pots, to cook for my husband and children. The boys should manage a year without a smartphone, it was said, and I sighed sadly to myself: How lucky! My next thought was: Phew! Poor girlfriends, extra poor if they possibly have children together. The Burned Out Woman alarm rings and flashes. If my partner had come up with something like this, I would have said: FORGET IT. I would have probably gurgled it, in a gurgling, werewolf-like way, to emphasize that this was not up for discussion. In order to leave me in the lurch in the digital logistics hell, he could just take off and screw it up. Not even if he had news in tow, to document the experiment. Or be researched by professionals from NTNU, such as the logout mates. And then, at the end of the project, spread from interview to interview, telling how many books he has read, how concentrated he is. And proudly hold up a picture of the framed old smartphone that he has managed without for a damn year. If my partner had done this, news would probably have gotten better TV by following me, who was to have the digital responsibility alone for a whole year. Because while my husband, Kristian, was reading a book, they could film me – an exhausted mum checking Spond, school messages, birthday invitations, flipping presents, checking the weekly schedule, checking toys, packages of sausages for hiking day, empty cans, empty jam jars and dorollers and what not that the school will have us send with the children (there will be a new chronicle about the helpless crap they make in shaping at school, for lack of proper material. Because the school doesn’t have the funds after spending everything on something else. Let my guess: the school iPad). That I had to have this responsibility ALONE FOR ONE YEAR, NTNU could have gladly researched, and probably seen that my brain crumbled away, that I had become exhausted, despondent and depressed, and in the end I would have probably looked like Gollum; crooked, hairless and anemic, sitting like a crow in front of the keyboard to register the children for training for the nth time. So this project would not have been feasible in our household. That’s for sure. So let’s just assume the logout guys have slightly more zen ladies, who happily take the digital responsibility, and that they are now happy that they themselves probably have twice as much screen time as the man. That they praise every day that they now have such a well-read man, with good concentration, as they say they got after being logged off. In addition, Sven and the log-out companion probably pay better attention when they are talking together, since they are not distracted by the smartphone all the time. Maybe they are more available for sex too? In any case, I have girlfriends who complain about the type who scrolls through the evening, and there are neither conversations nor closeness. So what will be the conclusion? I also want to log out, I want Kristian to log out too. I want the whole world to log off, but we are in a digital jam that has unfortunately become part of the family cabal. And I hate it. Hope the logout duo needs a logout girlfriend, if there will be a new series. Then I’ll be first in the queue. But not sure if I have the conscience to let my partner in the screen socket. Watch “Avlogga” on news: Mike and Sven go on a study trip to the world’s most logged-on country. Soon they have to make a decision – how will life be lived when the project is finished? Send us your opinion Want to write? Feel free to contact us at news Ytring with your post. The guidelines can be found here. Published 03.11.2024, at 10.45
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Our new national heroes – Speech
