The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Digital abundance is a mixed blessing: exhilarating, yet flattening and homogenizing. Culture is converted into “content” that blurs together as it flows through the same conduits and across the same interfaces in an endless stream. As we struggle to keep abreast of the accelerating flow of content, drawn by the perpetual lure of the new, we come t... See more
A Glut of Information and a Famine of Wisdom
Howard Jacobson • Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
The massive behavioral conditioning we’ve all been undergoing since the advent of ubiquitous electronic communications technology has changed us radically. But this dramatic, if not epochal, change is underappreciated. It’s underappreciated because we’re living in it as it happens, like frogs in cold water that slowly gets heated up without the fro
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