pitfalls of le internet

While I know that some men are lonely, I do not think that what afflicts America’s young today can be properly called a loneliness crisis. It seems more to me like an absence-of-loneliness crisis. It is a being-consantly-alone-and-not-even-thinking-that’s-a-problem crisis.

Porn is what you get when the act matters more than the intimacy.

And now everything’s porn.

Food porn. Design porn. Storytelling porn.

Slick. Stimulating. Shallow.

We celebrate virality but forget the virus.

We crave engagement but avoid connection.

Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive .

The kids can’t read . They can sound out the letters and recognise words, but they find it impossible to sit in one place and ingest a single extended linear piece of prose for more than five minutes. The kids don’t go outside. They don’t feel the sun on their skins. They spend whole summers locked in their rooms, alone, experiencing the world... See more

i’m tired and

my window to the world

has no curtains