Are We Turning Away From Themselves?

Dr. Andrew Keen says we're increasingly seeking to distract ourselves with the ever increasing types of distractions that are available to us. We need to avoid these intoxicants and this pleasure seeking for its own sake, he says. Instead, turn toward pain in our lives,. find that angle of repose in the lives that we've been given, tolerate the boredom, distress and disease - it's a much more impoverished life.