Thomas Griffin 2/13/25 (For National Catholic Register)
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In case you missed it, the 2024 word was “brain rot.”
Since 2004, the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen a “word of the year.” This word conveys a summary point of that particular span of time. It is typically a word that has gained more usage during that time period as well.
The definition of brain rot is a “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.”
Unfortunately, brain rot does accurately describe a significant portion of the daily experience of many people nowadays. This is also often related to “doomscrolling,” mindlessly scrolling without control, especially related to news consumption. Anyone who has a smartphone can probably describe the feeling of starting to look at something on your device and how, before long, one ends up spending much more time staring at the screen than anticipated. More and more people are coming to realize that the rectangular black screen in our pockets can easily become the center of one’s universe.
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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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