Archived I used to be a Human Being: My Distraction Sickness --- and Yours (nymag.com)
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Archived I used to be a Human Being: My Distraction Sickness --- and Yours (nymag.com)
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[–] derram ago
https://archive.is/y1hBe :
'I’d long treated my online life as a supplement to my real life, an add-on, as it were. '
'Online life is simply layered on top of offline life. '
'Christian leaders seem to think that they need more distraction to counter the distraction. '
'So it’s perhaps too easy to view this new era of mass distraction as something newly dystopian. '
'In the days, then weeks, then months after my retreat, my daily meditation sessions began to falter a little. '
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