the traveling salesman

When the mass media appeared—first movies, then radio, TV, internet—the capability to supply distractions also appeared.  As that capability grew, so did the appetite of the citizen.   Appetite evolved into need.  And the internet can be seen as an almost infinite array of fleeting amusements to satisfy that need.  The result is that, today, a person’s life is largely a sequence of these distractions.

Clifford Albertus,  Long-Term Storage.