We are living in a culture that is addicted to computer, iPhones, iPads, and television. How many times have you seen a teenager plop down with their iPhone and immediately tune others out? (For that matter, how many times have you seen moms tuning their kids out?) Does it seem like people are more at home on their devices or in front of a screen than they are interacting with EACH OTHER?
In reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, much is explained about our intellectual discourse and how it has gone downhill since the advent of television and modern media. (Read it - you will be shocked.)
