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		Millennium on Sept 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're creating a culture of distraction What is this "are creating"? We've had one for decades. We've refined it tremendously over the last 50+ years, by taking advantage of new technological achievements, but the fundamentals have been in place a lot longer than the article's author seems to think.

smacktoward on Sept 26, 2013 [–]

Yeah, Neil Postman wrote about this same basic issue in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death), and that came out nearly 30 years ago.

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