We don’t read about past thinkers nearly enough as we should.

Gilbert Highet was one such thinker who wrote a book, Man’s Unconquerable Mind, (1954) about the consequences of living in the information age. Even then he warned there was already too much noise and too many distractions and we are willingly crippling ourselves with petty pleasures.

“[People] may have become, like many primitive tribes, unable to read and write, incapable of organizing their experience into a logical pattern, impotent to plan for changes in the future or to recall the lessons of the past.” - Gilbert Highet, 1954