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Enough
The following quote is from my Foreward for Patrick Rhone’s most recent book, Enough: Some folks decry the collateral damage wrought by progress. They pronounce a return to the earth, free of modernity’s inventions and values. They urge us to disconnect and unplug from the apparatus of technology. They say the only way forward is [...]
Fully Off
This is the paradoxical thing about channeling your connectivity to the whole world through a single device in your pocket: as easily as you can be “always on,” you can equally choose to be “fully off.” An “always on” culture affords us the opportunity to disconnect in deeply rejuvenating ways. Never before have we been [...]
Civics and Citizens
According to Etymology Online, the word engage comes from the Old French en gage, meaning to “make pledge.” The root word has been used to for love and war — for engagement in marriage to engaging in battle — and also to “attract the attention of” a person or group (“he was a very engaging [...]
