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The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

— Andrew Weil

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.

— Marissa Mayer

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

— Tracy Chapman

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

— John Dyer

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

— Todd Gitlin

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

— Eric Alterman

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

— John Ashcroft

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

— Natalie Merchant

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

— Katherine Dunn

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

— Ernst Fischer

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