Reborn baby vs. cell phone. What's the difference?

Aida Franco de Lima – OPINION

In recent weeks, a wave of sensible people have turned their attention to people who have decided to have a reborn baby to call their own. For those who don't know, these are those hyper-realistic dolls and figurines that resemble a baby.

But what is the difference between people considered “abnormal”, who decide to have a routine with inanimate beings, and this other group of zombies who are glued to their phones and don’t look away?

What's the difference between someone who decides to change a lifeless baby's diaper and someone who changes their face to look like their idol? And what's the difference between someone who collects dolls from those and other collections and those car fanatics who freak out in traffic over a single scratch?

But let's get back to the title, to the two objects in question. The cell phone, is even more present in people's lives, in fact social networks, or antisocial networks and those who make money due to widespread clicking, gambling, among others, now judge and condemn the “reborneiros”.

Of course, it's all just commerce. Now it's rubber babies, maybe in the future it could be anything else that catches people's attention, is expensive enough to become an object of desire and status.

The fact is that they are the dirty ones, who are glued to their cell phones, talking about the poorly washed ones, who even change the diapers of their imaginary babies.

If everything continues as it is, in some not too distant future our fingerprints will be deformed and our necks will naturally curve downwards. Our genetics will adapt to look more at the ground than at the stars.

If the problem of excessive cell phone use in the classroom is being minimized among students up to high school, in the university world, where critical thinking and self-control are expected, without the teacher asking them to put away the glowing object, things are going from bad to worse.

Between a cell phone and a rubber doll in the classroom, I would choose the former. At least the focus would be the same. Unlike the light from the cell phone, which has become very similar to the light that attracts and kills moths.

In the current circumstances, in which this week we witnessed an influencer testify at the CPI das Bets and be mobbed by those who should question the indecency of gambling, reborn baby in the eyes of so much alienation is refreshing!

I watched several speeches by psychologists, psychiatrists, among others, warning about the lack of affection, the need for control, and even predictability, and how attachment to a rubber doll reflects a sick society.

But if that were our only problem… Our sick, consumerist society, which imposes beauty and behavior standards on social media, where people need to change their hair, their face, where everyone wants to live, but without aging. Life in search of the Instagrammable moment, which makes certain regions expel digital pilgrimages, who want the Selfie perfect and disturb the peace of the residents... There are so many problems that it doesn't even fit into one text.

Taking care of a rubber baby is a piece of cake compared to the destruction of the planet and students who are more interested in their cell phones than in their education. Or parents who give their children cell phones so they can have time for Instagram and TikTok…

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