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- So much of what you used to do, your phone now does for you, including think.
- Apps which claim to save you time, use all your time, and often, your money.
- Your phone has done something very mean to you: it has made you dependent.
- Podcasts have replaced books because you no longer know how to read.
- You are a fake expert that proscribes fake solutions to fake problems: that is your career.
- Our attention is colonized and mined. The new new world is the human mind itself.
- We seek repetitive relief from the needs which are carefully engineered by corporations. That is life now. No wonder people are bored.
- Depression is the new name for existential discomfort and pain. Anguish — a concept full of religious feeling — is now a chemical imbalance: a mysterious illness that only pharmaceutical companies know how to cure.
- We spend 1/3 of our lives being trained for the misery of the final 2/3's.
- Give up the illusion that purchasing stuff can make you happy, and you can say that your life has finally begun.
