The lockdown blog: day 26
Nostalgic memory of youth: My mother telling me not to watch too much TV in case I got "square eyes". I spent a long time trying to find someone suffering from this affliction but strangely never did. But ah, the days when 'screen time' was seen as an unnecessary pleasure and square eyes the risk associated with it, akin to the 'monster under the bed'. Now it is a necessary evil. We buy special 'anti-blue light' glasses to allow us to continue to stare, squarely, into the screen in an intense 'who blinks first' match. I'm currently in one and will continue until four pm when I log off my duties of monitoring psychology classes. ***** The above section was written, as you can guess, well before the present --when I ir...