epistemological dissonance

Their brains are rewarded
not for staying on task but for jumping
to the next thing. The worry is we're raising
a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains
are going to be wired differently.

-Michael Rich

this is a figure of speech isn't it?
i mean
we're not talking about the actual wiring of brains, are we?

maybe it would have been more accurate to say:
their priorities will be vastly different-
and we are all likely to suffer because of that

what are we doing here

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately co-ordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process where the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

Friedrich Hayek +1992

horsemen pass by

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein