it is not just that university students do not read for the most part. Too many of them also seem somehow disconnected from the experience of living itself - as though the real, physical world around them is a kind of limbo which they are forced to dwell in, in between the times they are able to look at their phones. Studying, reading, cultivating one’s personality, working, preparing for one’s career - these things seem not to matter a great deal. They are out there somewhere, admittedly, but what one holds right now, in one’s hand, flashing lights and unleashing dopamine in one’s brain - that is right here, and that is therefore what demands all attention, focus, and thought. The result is a feeling of detachment from the tasks one knows that one should be doing, and a sense of archness, of remove, of passivity - even enervation.