Is this a natural phase of evolution? What if ADD and ADHD were just natural by-products of our over-achieving, capitalistic society? Children just acclimatizing.
In his book Crossing the Postmodern Divide (1992), Albert Borgmann criticized some of the features of modern life, which he characterized in terms of hyperreality and hyperactivity. Hyperactivity is often described as a pathological syndrome for the individual - both children and workaholics. Borgmann extends this notion of hyperactivity to society as a whole, and defines it as a state of mobilization where the richness and variety of social and cultural pursuits, and the natural pace of daily life, have been suspended to serve a higher, urgent cause
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Rebecca Dias, ADD and ADHD - Evolution? (27 November 2007)
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