Lucía Retta

…rbatim the Wikipedia definition of something really obvious, like “rice.” (I don’t know your life.) At the very least, you are familiar with the shallow, unfocused experience of outsourcing some of your thinking to the internet. People have been worried about technology making us more stupid for a long time.

“No, brain,” I said, in my head. “There is no signal in the middle of the desert.”

…d a transcript to tell us this, but it’s there. Trump talks to occupy space and run down the clock. He’s prompted to speak by a question but rarely answers the question; he only has to talk long enough to execute his turn in the conversation before the questioner wrests it away. That’s the extent of the coherence. Otherwise, he cajoles, he lies, he brags, he cuts down, and the…