The End of Absence

Same as the abundance of fat and sugar in our food supply (while our bodies still are tuned to a scarcity of them) the internet has brought on an abundance of triggers, information, connectedness, opportunities. And while the new generation doesn't know what this has left behind, everyone born in the 70ies and 80ies seems now to be overcome with a nostalgia for what we have lost: the solitude, the downtime, the daydreaming, the moments we just experience and don't need to share, the absence. Harris reflects on these themes, and we follow along his quest to reclaim some of what we have lost. There's no solution in here, no 10-step program, besides reaching the understanding that we need to self-regulate, find our own balance.

Joins the ranks of many books lately that quote Thoreau.