The distraction trope

In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland is the latest curmudgeon to recycle Nick Carr’s distraction trope, microwave it, and serve it with gravy. The argument is that Twitter?though possibly a wonderful thing for Egyptian revolutionaries (we can argue that trope another day)?is distracting us Westerners from our important work of deep reading and deep thinking and [...]

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