Experience as It Once Was vs Hyperconnectivity

There is a certain silence, or slowness, or confusion that the god of efficiency and hyperconnectedness will not tolerate.

.. I don’t know that I want to go 115 miles per hour every day but I like the idea I can and nobody will fuss. I don’t want to live in the hush of eastern Germany but I recognize a simplicity lost and the possibility there of an undistracted existence.

The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere — the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other. We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experience. These lists are meaningless.