Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself.

Our culture is about distraction, numbing oneself. There is no self-reflection, no sitting still. It's absolutely exhausting.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

They become a distraction and can be injured.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at...

It's almost numbing. There's so much more to get excited about.