Today, coherent critical thought is being increasingly displaced by the soundbite and the factoid (epitomised by Google), and earnest depth is losing popularity to the shallow efficiency of multitasking. We ourselves may very well be losing our depth of character and turning into pancake people.
We now live, as Hobsbawm wistfully regretted, in an eternal present, with no past and no future. A present where we have, by choice or plain old laziness, ceased to learn from those who have gone before us. (Hence, partly, the unpopularity of memorisation).
Doesn't the whole scenario sound somewhat like the dystopia Bradbury painted out in his work?
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