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#418 - Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention And Focus
Modern Wisdom
The Medium Is the Message, Right?
When i was in provincetown and had those three months off the internat, i was really able to think about that. Why do i feel so much better when i'm reading a book? Diffent people have different flostates when it's playing the guitar or serfing, or whatever it might be. And i started thinking about that in relation to sa twitzer or instagram, right? Em, because is the message hidden in the medium of twitter. Doesn't matter if you're donald trump or berney sanders or bubber the love sponge, when you twe you are buying into an implicit set of messages. The world can and should be described in 280
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