Call Waiting
The DownFall of Western Civilisation
5 min readMay 3, 2021
“Hold on, don’t go anywhere.”
It’s the common refrain you hear when you’re about to be put on hold. It means that your conversation will be suspended by the caller on the other line. It translates all so badly into other things too. That the other caller is deemed more important. Or that your needs aren’t critical or can wait.
It’s hard to imagine that there was a time in which you can have a conversation with someone on a device without interruption. Today, there are many: Instagram, Facebook…