New York Times Writer Austin Considine writes that “if Moses were redelivering his theophany today — the assembled crowd furiously tweeting his every sound bite — one imagines the frustrated prophet’s taking a moment to clarify what God meant, exactly, by a ‘day of rest.'”
Reboot is trying to address that modern day problem by asking people to stash away their phones and embrace the Sabbath Manifesto’s 10 principles, he said.
Jill Soloway, a producer for Showtime’s “United States of Tara,” and a writer and producer for HBO’s “Six Feet Under” told Considine that unplugging for a day was “next to excruciating,” particularly since she got an iPhone about a year ago.
“Somebody once said to me that a computer fits with anxiety like a lock in a key,” she said. “And that’s exactly right. You have an anxious moment out in your life, or in your world, and you want a little hit, and your e-mail can do that.”
But, she’ll power down for the National Day of Unplugging, she said. There is something about preserving “the dignity of one day” each week that was compelling on an emotional level, Soloway said.
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