Tune In, Drop Out

by Zoe Pollock

Robert Wright returns from a meditation retreat, clicks on a Paris Hilton video, and ponders our plugged in lives:

In the space of only a few minutes, the grid had sent a succession of emotions coursing through my body, none that I'm especially proud of. And I feel especially not proud of them right after a meditation retreat, which grants enough critical distance from your feelings to highlight their frequent pointlessness, if not absurdity...

So there you go: covetousness...