"Martin Luther discovered truth only after serious thought. We cannot expect to discover it while mindlessly scrolling though memes. What if Luther had decided he needed a mental break from deep thinking and, instead of continuing to meditate on the Word, opened a social-media account and began to scroll? Without Luther’s deep thinking, the Reformation may not have happened.

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski." Jeff Mingee