第八宗罪

Humankind has devised a new form of debasement. By James Parker Sometimes, staring brainlessly into my laptop in the trough of a weekday afternoon, experiencing myself as a kind of online shadow, a thing of fidgets, a half- being hollowed out by roaming spectral appetites—for destruction, for gratification, for the email that never comes—it occurs to me to ask: Now, which of the seven deadly sins is this ? Sin, the theologians tell us, is whatever separates us from God. Now the sins were characters. They could be per- sonified, and artists went to town. …