“I've become keenly aware that we literally do live in a world of shout-y walls. And if that isn't distracting enough, my phone contains the voices of billions on Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook. But Montag is right when he said that, 'Nobody feels listened to,' because too often, we don't listen to those voices on Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook. We just use them for distractions.”
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