on lingering, time, and digital media

[chimerically]

I recently encountered this passage in an online journal (ironic, given its content), and found that it stuck in my mind for days afterward. In the article as a whole, the author (somewhat snarkily) muses on what has become of attention and time in our digital world. Without veering into technological determinism, he addresses the fact that using

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[greenexecutive]

I just got back from Disneyworld, and if you are unconvinced that America has an obesity problem, you just gotta hang with the Mouse. We ate there on the meal plan (which gets you a sizeable discount, but also forces everyone in your room to be on the plan as well so you can't split meals). I found it immediately difficult to eat as much as I wanted and leave the rest. It's easy to pick at reasons why this was (the food was simple and sweet and fatty, I was jetlagged and overstimulated and the comfort food lifted me), but in truth it was hugely because I am a monkey responding to monkey cues put in place by an organization that specializes in monkey cuing. I wasn't angry at Disney Co. for cuing me (I went to Florida largely to be cued), but it did make me realize that people are animals first and reasoning creatures second