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Distracted:
Places link us to history, literature, the murky depths of the human soul, and to others.
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Distracted:
We are becoming a nation of the untethered.
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Distracted:
…a society that leaves no room for attachment cannot make songlines. We are not using maps to ground ourselves but rather, to enable ourselves to keep moving on.
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Distracted:
Detachment is the cost of our wondrous, liberating mobility, the price we pay for living untethered.
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Distracted:
The tempo of travel blurs the landscape, and our vehicles increasingly enfold us in a bubble of remove.
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Distracted:
A culture of constant movement, in part fueled by a love of instant gratification, cannot bear the mystery and unpredictability inherent in the idea of pause.
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Distracted:
We’ve moved from a premodern world of competing and conflicting sights, odors, sounds, and tactile experience to an era of separate sensory experiences dominated by our most intellectual and distanced sense: vision…
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Distracted:
…myriad experiments show that, as people pay less attention to what and how they eat, they are increasingly prey to marketers of abundance.
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Distracted:
If we pause, we can begin to see that the land of distraction is a topography of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.
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Distracted:
We endeavor to hustle past the limitations of the clock via a split-focused life, and we lose our anchoring and hence our sense of self in a blurred life broken from place.
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