In his New York Times essay on the value of live theater as an "antidote" for our digital "attention-finance complex," dramatist Ayad Akhtar sounds, I think, a necessary warning about our often lulled online complacency (and a monetized one, at that) and its repercussion on our "collective well-being;" questioning whether our society has been subsumed by one of its components: the marketplace.
As a maker, as skeptical reader, and as a user of technology I am always on guard about being used by it. In championing his artform, Akhtar asks us to take a hard look at our digital independence/dependence and to reinvest in the real.
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