Scrolling Ourselves to Death: Reclaiming Life in a Digital Age
Ivan Mesa and Brett McCracken
"Heads down. Phones out. Fingers scrolling. This is the humanoid posture of our age." Those words introduce readers to this essay collection which applies Neil Postman's insights to our digital moment. If you want to understand how your media consumption is affecting your brain and your discipleship, this is a wonderful place to begin.
We’re amusing ourselves into addiction. Entertainment culture metastasized into something not even Postman could have predicted: dopamine media…The trade-off we all make in the digital era is not merely between substantive and trivial discourse. It’s between sobriety and addiction.
