Why you (probably) won’t finish reading this story Vox: “We live in a distracted world, almost certainly the most distracted world in human history. And if you’re part of this circus, you’re drowning in options and gadgets and screens and you’re being pulled in a million directions seemingly all at once.
If you spend any time online, you already know this. You’re constantly stalked by advertisers and product peddlers, and your attention is constantly being harvested and sold. That’s the business model of Big Tech.
A new book by the British journalist Johann Hari, called Stolen Focus, takes a close look at what’s happening — and what’s happened — to our collective attention. Hari argues that we’re all becoming lost in our own lives, which feel more and more like a parade of diversions. And it seems to be getting worse and worse every year…”
Many people say that communism fell because of the détente between political leaders, and Gorbachev’s embrace of social democracy. But #TongueInCzechCheek I think that the impact of Monty Python on popular culture had a lot to do with it.
The Morality of Gentlemen, by Amanda Lohrey
Two decades of the Literary Saloon
The complete review was started in 1999, and this Literary Saloon opened in 2002 -- on this date, as a matter of fact, making it twenty years old today.
The bigger site-anniversary will follow in a couple of weeks -- probably around the beginning of October, when the complete review reaches 5000 titles under review, but two decades of this is something too, isn't it ?
Good to see that even after all this time there are still some readers interested in what gets posted here. It still seems to serve a purpose, so you can expect things to continue much the same at least a while longer.
