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Liz Smith | 11/17/2010 12:00 am

"I SEE that we have created a nation of zombies ? heads down, thumbs on tiny keyboards, mindless millions staring blankly, shuffling off to some unseen horizon."

That’s Ted Gup, writing in The Smithsonian magazine: "One Man’s Rage Against the Dying of Civility."

Mr. Gup also notes: "I say any thought that doesn’t have a shelf life beyond five seconds is best left unarticulated. Alexander Graham Bell liked keeping in touch as much as the next guy, but during the ceremony following his death in 1922, telephones across America were silenced in tribute to their inventor. Quaint as it may sound today, I wonder if a ...

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