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YOU can tell that David Brooks gets around America. Here he is observing workaholics (himself?) coming down the aisle boarding a plane:
They've got hand-free wires clipped to their shirt; they're trying to shimmy out of their suit coat and get their carry-on bag into the overhead rack without interrupting their cell-phone conversation. And they're talking faster and faster, because they know that in just a few minutes, the door of that plane is going to close, and they'll be ordered to turn off their phones and it'll be like someone ripped out their trachea. Cut off! Severed from the information superhighway! Restricted to the tiny capsule of their ...