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Mar 8
“The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so contrary to our natural impulse, is something we now have to relearn in relation to knowledge, people and ideas. We require periods of fast in the life of our minds no less than in that of our bodies.”

Alain de Botton

I think I would find a media fast very difficult, but it’s nonetheless an idea I’ve toyed with…