The story is told of a man who received a call from the middle school down the road. The voice on the other end of the line said, “Sir, we are calling because your son has become a serial liar.” To which the man responded, “Well, he must be pretty good, because I don’t have [ Read More ]
Smartphones are making us unbelievably, mind-numbingly, aggressively dumb. Not merely dumb. Also lonely, depressive, narcissistic, compulsive, and cynical. But for the purposes of this brief article, dumb. Smartphones are making us into lumpen half-wits. I suspected it for years, as I realized that my smartphone distracted me continually, feeding the more superficial aspects of my [ Read More ]