Typewriter at the Coffee Shop

When I was at my dear local coffee shop the other day, someone in the corner was typing on a typewriter.  Yes, a typewriter.  A good old, honest to goodness, pop! pop! pop! typewriter.  Must have been tough to carry it all the way there.

I felt like saying "O.K., we know, it's an anomaly.  It's unusual, this is a spectacle, we're looking at you, you're making some kind of statement about modernity, we get it.  It got tiresome after about 10 seconds."

And she was being selfish.  Immanuel Kant suggested that before we take an action we should imagine everyone else doing the same, and then ask if the world would still function or not.  If it wouldn't, it's the wrong thing to do.  If everyone brought an old-school typewriter to the coffee shop, and all 30 people were typing, it would be popping chaos.

So it's the wrong thing to do.

Hipsters.