I challenge you to keep the T.V. off for a whole week.
I dare you not to load Facebook for a week.
Turn it off.
Read a book. Even a bad one is probably better than T.V. (But if you are just going to read Twilight then you might as well just turn the T.V. back on.)
Do you feel lost without Facebook? Have lunch with a friend. Call your dad on the phone.
Play a board game.
Make pizza from scratch.
Go to a baseball game.
Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here's the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now--older people as well as younger people--you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people's thoughts....You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice.
William Dersiewicz in The American Scholar
Can't do it. Just can't. Might think about it in passing though.
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