Ed Gungor (@edgungor): "Freud noticed something we keep re-learning: we invented the railway, then needed the telephone to hear the voices of the people the railway took away. Every technology of connection seems to arrive as a remedy for a wound that technology helped create. That's not an argument …"

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Freud noticed something we keep re-learning: we invented the railway, then needed the telephone to hear the voices of the people the railway took away.

Every technology of connection seems to arrive as a remedy for a wound that technology helped create.

That's not an argument against our devices. It's an argument for using them with open eyes — and knowing the difference between staying in touch and actually showing up.

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The Ache Beneath Connection

In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud makes an observation that feels even more piercing now than when he wrote it: “If there had been no railway to conquer distances, my child would never have left his native town and I should need no telephone to hear his voice.” It is a brilliant sentence because it doesn’t just flatter technology. The telephone…

Ed Gungor

May 3

10:43 AM

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The Ache Beneath Connection

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