"When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind."
— Senior, Jennifer
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Date
February 9, 2019
Metaphor
"When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind."
Metaphor in Context
It cannot be an accident that the lions of Silicon Valley, who live and die by the information whorl, are bullish on meditation. Bill Gates wrote a blog post a couple of months ago about it, praising the practice for focusing his busy mind. Twitter's Jack Dorsey meditates, as we all learned from a string of insensitive tweets he recently unleashed from Myanmar. (It's a fine line between mindfulness and mindlessness, apparently.) When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind.
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Reading
Citation
Jennifer Senior, "Our Brains Aren't Designed to Handle the Trump Era," The New York Times (February 9, 2019). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
02/13/2019
