Sweet Poison

Steve Jobs lured John Sculley to Apple from Pepsi with the accusing question of whether he wanted to make a career selling sugar water. Jobs went on to sell noise players, phones for sending fragmented utterances, and glowing screens people could carry around and stare at anywhere they had the danger of a few seconds that might afford calm reflection.

These products help break attention spans on a global scale, wrecking consciousness with a stream of pointless amusement and sentiment inculcation. Made cheap and convenient, this mental stranglehold and addiction enabler could have never been conceived or facilitated by the entertainment industry.

Peddling sugar water and promoting global obesity seems cute and harmless in comparison, causing only a ruined body, barely wrecking the mind and soul.