I haven’t read the book and I also didn’t mean to take away from the conclusion that our attention span is gone and the way we interact with social media is at fault. However, I strongly oppose phrasing such things in a way that make us look like victims who aren’t in control of our lives. Take for example alcohol: It’s a drug that everyone knows is bad for the body, yet many people drink it. We are enticed by ads and peer pressure to join the “alcohol drinkers” and yet, if someone becomes an alcoholic or at least overly inclined to alcohol consumption, nobody says “their sobriety was stolen from them” but “they became a drinker/alcoholic”.

So yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that we need to tackle this issue both on an individual level and as a society, I just also think that we need to accept, that we always had it in our hands.