Holding up a phone or, God forbid, a tablet, is merely the surface of the crime, but the core of the matter is philosophically more rotten. I’ll let Jeff take over with an anecdote from a show: I was really proud of myself because . . . I thought I had come up with the most exquisite way to express how I was feeling and I actually told the person in front of me—I said, “I do want you to film this and I want you to put it on YouTube—you’re surrendering your memory to an imperfect medium. Your memory is already imperfect, but this is worse. This is worse. It’s never gonna be as good as being
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