Distracted from distraction by distraction: Summer Reading list.

You know what really grinds my gears? When people complain about the kids not reading enough, spending too much time on their phones. Or about man's predicament of being harassed by self-inflicted technology.
David Meyer (professor of psychology at the University of Michigan) is convinced that "chronic", long standing & routine distraction is as dangerous as cigarette smoking (lol at mah previous post).
Apparently we're finding it progressively more challenging to immerse ourselves in a book or a long article.
Plausibly “The next generation will not grieve because they will not know what they have lost,” says an environmentalist named Bill McKibben who I feel pressure to have possibly should have heard of.
So what, are we all supposed to pull an Henry Thoreau and cut ourselves off and live near a pond.
What I think is the great tragedy due to our short attention spans is that while porn has become such lucrative industry, which is great, it has become, in a way, unappreciated. There's no buying a VHS and watching the whole thing, the plot actually matters less than ever.
And don't get me wrong, occasionally I'll have about 3 spare minutes and I won't want a porno with a narrative, but what happened to good old fashioned fantasy!? There's no day dream in today's porn. Can you even buy pulp erotic novels anymore?!
So now these great classics, such as The Sadists & the Hostages, and Top Notch Nymph will forever be lost, and replaced with Rae Gets Fucked 3.23 minutes, or Tanya Big Tits 1.32.
So I will grieve for the generation that does not know what it is losing.
And if I do ever decide to pack up to Walden Pond, I will be bringing these with me.