The Curse of the Convenient (or, How Not to Leave Your Cell Phone on the Roof of Your Car)
I have been thinking a lot lately about the intersection of anxiety and the demands of our advanced society, of the common ground between dis-ease and technology, and of the meeting point where excess, consumption, productivity, technology, and anxiety converge. In Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig writes, Human brains – in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness – are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the Stone Age.