Elsewhere, U.S.A.

The New York Times Book Review has an interesting piece on Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety

, a book I’d be tempted to buy if my plan weren’t to work through the backlog on my shelves before getting the latest Kindle

for future reading. (The technology should be even better by then.) Here’s how the Times sums it up:

Instead of individuals searching for authenticity, we are ‘intraviduals’ defined by shifting personas and really cool electronics, which help us manage ‘the myriad data streams, impulses, desires and even consciousnesses that we experience in our heads as we navigate multiple worlds.’

Wow. Instead of navel gazing, I’m heading out to check my navel oranges.