A Culture of Introspective Captivity
For me, cultural consumption was never an escape from reality. It was a way of getting closer to reality, of better understanding it, conquering it.
Clara Törnvall • The Autists: women on the spectrum
The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more