Un articolo pubblicato da Monkey See, un blog della NPR, sull’ansia del consumo — di articoli, informazioni, libri, tutto quanto insomma. Da leggere quando ci sentiamo in colpa perché ignoriamo la timeline di Twitter, lasciamo che il lettore di feed RSS accumuli articoli o posticipiamo la lettura di un pezzo a Instapaper. Internet è piena di cose magnifiche, e finiremo per perdercele quasi tutte. La soluzione sta nell’accettare questo fatto, selezionando con cura, evitando di arrendersi alla mole:
It’s an effort, I think, to make the world smaller and easier to manage, to make the awareness of what we’re missing less painful. There are people who choose not to watch television – and plenty of people don’t, and good for them – who find it easier to declare that they don’t watch television because there is no good television than to say they choose to do other things, but acknowledge that they’re missing out on Mad Men — which is surrender1. […] If “well-read” means “not missing anything,” then nobody has a chance. If “well-read” means “making a genuine effort to explore thoughtfully,” then yes, we can all be well-read. But what we’ve seen is always going to be a very small cup dipped out of a very big ocean, and turning your back on the ocean to stare into the cup can’t change that.
- Più tecnicamente definito l’approccio alla Paul Miller al problema ↩