Merton on FOMO in 1966: The news reaches me in the long run - TopicsExpress



          

Merton on FOMO in 1966: The news reaches me in the long run through books and magazines, and no longer as a stimulant. Living without news is like living without cigarettes (another peculiarity of monastic life). The need for this habitual indulgence quickly disappears. So, when you hear news without the need to hear it, it treats you differently. And you treat it differently too. ... The ritual morning trance, in which one scans columns of newsprint, creates a peculiar form of generalized pseudo-attention to pseudo-reality. This experience is taken seriously. It is ones daily immersion in reality. Ones orientation to the rest of the world. Ones way of reassuring himself that he has not fallen behind. That he is still there. That he still counts! - Events and Pseudo-Events: Letter to a Southern Churchman
Posted on: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:54:18 +0000

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