Can We Escape Our Internet Hell?

So there's an article that's been on my mind recently. It actually came out in August. in the Wall Street Journal and it was titled I have it here I didn't realize how addicted I was to my phone. Until I went to prison. Cincinnati politician who went to jail for some white collar crime. So what he talks about in the article is that when he was in prison where he obviously couldn't have a phone.

many things in his life actually became richer. He talked about noticing with detail the changing of the seasons. He talked about having deep conversations with his cellmate. He even began writing poetry, which is something he had never done before. Okay, then he gets released from prison, you know, yay. But what happens between him and his phone, well Perhaps this is predictable, but let me read to you from the article what happened once he got home from prison. As he writes,

Within just a few months I'd reverted to my old habits, immediately glancing at and engaging with every ping and alert and reflexively picking up my phone to scroll through my rotation of go to websites. It's an irony I'm still grappling with with that a kind of freedom I learned in prison I couldn't manage to bring back home. With me. Let's think about that for a second. He's basically saying, look

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