"Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we’d surely be fighting for custody of our brains."
— Senior, Jennifer
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Date
February 9, 2019
Metaphor
"Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we’d surely be fighting for custody of our brains."
Metaphor in Context
It should be noted that this problem of split-screen consciousness is likely to get worse in the era of divided government, not better. It won't just be the president laying claim to our attention, but also those who are holding him to account. Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we'd surely be fighting for custody of our brains. In 2016, before Trump was elected, Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, examined the daily habits of 40 information workers. She discovered they checked their email 77 times per day, on average, and slalomed between screens every 47 seconds.
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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
