We wire brains so that they can’t be alone. There is no resting state for the brain anymore. If I forget to bring a book on the train, I crave some stimulus — which means my phone. Often, I stop reading my book to read something inane on my phone. I don’t believe in the rational. Cartesian mind; experience refutes that hypothesis. I believe in what I am: a decentralized nervous system craving inputs. Irrational, easily overwhelmed. Or rather, arational: outside the binary of rational/irrational; thinking/feeling.

We use the stupid corporate buzzword ‘mindfulness' to trick ourselves into feeling like we can cope with our hardware issues — our hijacked…