Exciting things are starting to happen now that I have relinquished nearly all social media, (I do still keep an online diary).
The first was that on my birthday, only people that I wanted to hear from called me. Thank GOODNESS! No more plastic calendar chicanery and hundreds of wilted greetings from the blue fake-emotion-book abyss.
The second is that I have regained two hours a day, which I can use in quite productive ways, seeing as the phone isn't incessantly winking and beeping and BEGGING me to touch and fondle it.
I have put these minutes to good use by doing something called READING. Reading, (fast becoming foreign policy these days) uninterrupted by the internet and its time-wasting apps on the glowing rectangle, is one of life's great pleasures. It is also, still, after being invented in Mesopotamia around 5000 years ago, the primary method of education and learning worldwide.
But are we messing it up? I focus so much on financial literacy that I feel I might have missed something far more important, like actual literacy. Without one, it is unlikely that we are going to make a giant amount of progress on the other.