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How constant stimulation erodes contemplative capacity

My kids spend all day in screens and I spend all day in screens and none of us seem to remember how to be bored anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The colonization of attention by digital systems prevents the emptiness necessary for imagination and inner development.

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