Excessively Convenient

There’s convenience, and then there’s *excessive* convenience. While some modern conveniences are indeed necessary and needed, the excessive ones can be detrimental to ourselves and society as a whole.

Items and services of convenience are often substitutes for supportive culture and connection. On today’s show historian Jennifer Newton and I discuss how culture – and specifically excessively convenient, disposable culture – perpetuates itself; we also muse on what to do if the prevailing cultur...