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'I do know that I started noticing a change in my own reading habits – I'd get online and look up and 40 minutes would have gone by, and my reading time for the night would have been pissed away, and all I would have learned was that, you know, a certain celebrity had lived in her car awhile, or that a cat had dialled 911.'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/22/george-saunders-my-desktop-time-100?ref=thebrowser.com
@cyrilpedia The way that paragraph ends is a doozy: "It's almost as if totalitarianism thought better of the jackboots and decided to go another way: smoother, more flattering – and impossible to resist."