Dueling Majors

Here's something a bit different, a post for my more literature-centric readers. You never get to hear from this side of my brain though, so enjoy this passage I stumbled upon in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads. I'm afraid of the implications it has for someone, such as myself, who is a Journalism/English major.

"For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies."

...Story of my life.