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Apr. 14 2009 - 12:59 pm | 2 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

When The Roofer Notices Your Media Addiction, It’s A Problem

Has digital technology created “a mass upper class that was so immersed in symbolic and digital cerebration that it had become incapable of carrying out the most ordinary functions—had become, in effect, like small children with Asperger’s symptoms.” Are you becoming one of those who “don’t know how to deal with a human being”?


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    Glad you caught this story — good stuff. The day when I can’t sit with a blue-collar dud and share a beer, I want someone to do me severe violence, for I have it coming.

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