Welcome to the Culture of Distraction

This is The Culture of Distraction.

From cell phones to phony news, we are constantly bombarded with sensory input intended to coerce our attention away from the truly important to the ostensibly urgent. Whether this is an intended function or one that is derivative of the technology, it comes across, at least to me, as wrought with deceptive sleight-of-hand and fundamentally catastrophic to the growth of a healthy society.