Cell Fanatic
Cellular phones: I don’t use them; never have. It wasn’t a hard decision to make, once I saw how they were absorbing souls, especially of the simple, in the manner of an addictive drug. They’re like rock or rap music or professional sports; they make zombies of their users, creating wildernesses of immense tracts of their minds. They are stupid-pills, one of whose traits is their anesthetic effect: the users don’t know they’ve been stupefied. They are baseline acceptable simply because they’re a part of life, so swearing off them is not a chance to return to normality, but the act of a fanatic.
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.
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