And one other thought, Brad. Long before some fool decided to install ads at the gas pump, I recall being equally horrified at being assailed by ads, not videos but still, on the backs of the women's bathroom stall doors. It was a harbinger of things to come, just like videos in the backs of taxi cabs.

Viktor Frankl wrote of the sanctity of the inner world when all else has been robbed. This utter and complete hijacking of the human mind via entertainment and attention is beyond rephrensible. What's worse, more and more parents default to the phone as baby sitter, setting their children up to fail at life. I never had any. I wasn't mother material. I fear that I might have done the same, so I can understand the temptation. However, we do indeed rob them, and ourselves, of any kind of future.