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Discourse Magazine: The Autodidact: To Improve Society, Start With Improving Yourself (www.discoursemagazine.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Intelligence is easy to find online, but there’s precious little wisdom. Those of us who spend too much time in the digital world (for me, it’s a job requirement) are all too familiar with the firehose of the latest news, trends and controversies. Within hours, they’ll be replaced by new topics just as meaningless.

Many experts have sounded alarms that this torrent of ephemera and the mad chase for clicks are rewiring brains, reducing attention spans and altering how we process information. Too often, we focus on the transient and urgent and abandon the meaningful and eternal.

Some of y'all should do what this guy did: read a book and touch some grass.

Discourse Magazine is an online publication of the Mercatus Center, a conservative think tank.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I feel personally attacked.

[–] TORFdot0 1 points 8 months ago

I really liked the column, especially the introduction. The latter half conclusion of "read books" is simple enough although not exactly the critique of society I was expecting after the first half. I look forward to the next column being posted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Not to name names, but I think being proud of spraying homeless people with water during the winter is a good starting point. Maybe don't do that, and it would be a good source of self improvement.