Culture
How To Seek Quality Entertainment In A Culture Of Distraction
On a daily basis, our screens present a panorama of chaos in bite-sized videos. Cute puppies that belong to strangers. Amateur chefs we don’t know preparing food we can’t taste. Those people who film themselves having meltdowns in their parked cars. This content is entertaining, infuriating, or baffling at different turns, but it all falls under a singular umbrella: distraction.
By Kathleen Breaux5 min read
Stealing our time, attention, and brain cells, this noise offers us virtually nothing in return. It dulls our intellectual curiosity and wills our physical bodies to remain sedentary – and these terrible effects pale in comparison to the toll that it takes on our souls.