information overload and social acceleration work together to create a paralyzing feedback loop, pressing us to practice continually the triage I spoke of earlier, forcing our judgments about what to pay attention to, what to think about, to become ever more peremptory and irreversible. (That’s one of the reasons why social media’s attitude toward sinners—the unclean, the defiling—is simply to expel them from the community, so they don’t need to be thought about any further.) And all this has the further effect of locking us into the present moment. There’s no time to think about anything else
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