Pages Over Feeds and A Quote From Henry David Thoreau
This Week's Note
Pages Over Feeds
Not because reading is inherently good and scrolling is objectively bad. But because if we’re not careful, we’ll spend all of our spare time consuming content instead of doing (literally) anything else.
Not because there is a book that will change your life. But because reading reminds us that we need not confine said life to the bezels of our digital devices.
Not because we need a dopamine detox. But because our lived experience is created by the many moments we tend to scroll away.
This Week's Resource
A quote from Henry David Thoreau from Walden and Self Reliance.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Three things in particular make this quote fascinating.
- "Brain rot" can trace its origins back to the 19th century (and possibly even before).
- Its likely the case that every generation has described the masses developing some form of "brain rot."
- The historical use of "brain rot" means that its most recent variant could fortunately be something as innocuous as generational change.
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