“And yet I think also that if even we today could acquire the knack of maintaining undistracted consciousness between coffee breaks, we too might find that we possessed angelic talents, powers, and skills.” – Joseph Campbell
“The truth about us is sobering: We have been playing with our smart phones while hurtling toward the abyss…” – Sam Harris
Introduction
The flourishing of humanity depends on many mental and physical attributes, such as dexterous hands, abstract thought, communication ability and kin relations. If any of these characteristics vanished on a widespread scale, our quality of life would almost certainly regress. Although most traits foundational to human achievement are intact, a mental faculty indispensable to human progress is being catastrophically degraded.
Stories From the Ground. 