In the New Republic, Evgeny Morozov mocks the new “Mindful” movement. Arianna Huffington and others ask that we turn off our 24/7 Internet lifestyle for an hour and… I don’t know what… do yoga or eat a Greek yogurt or look at a sunset or something. Morozov thinks that unplugging from Twitter and Facebook is a good idea, but not for some new-age, Oprah Winfrey, love-the-real-you reason. He sees it as an act of rebellion.

In other words, why we disconnect matters: We can continue in today’s mode of treating disconnection as a way to recharge and regain productivity, or we can view it as a way to sabotage the addiction tactics of the acceleration-distraction complex that is Silicon Valley. The former approach is reactionary but the latter can lead to emancipation, especially if such acts of refusal give rise to genuine social movements that will make problems of time and attention part of their political agendas—and not just the subject of hand-wringing by the Davos-based spirituality brigades. Hopefully, these movements will then articulate alternative practices, institutions, and designs. If it takes an act of unplugging to figure out how to do it, let’s disconnect indeed. But let us not do it for the sake of reconnecting on the very same terms as before. We must be mindful of all this mindfulness.

I like that. Unplug. It’s good for you. But don’t unplug from this blog. That would be a bad thing.