Louis C.K., smartphones, and the gospel

Check out this video of Louis C.K. telling Conan O'brien what he thinks of smartphones, and why he won't get them for his kids.  In it he makes a couple important points.  First, he mentions how social media and the like inhibit our ability to have compassion or develop empathy for others (he's not alone; also, see: psychopathy).  Also, and just as importantly, he notes its power to distract us from our immediate situations--but he doesn't leave it at that, he tells why that matters:  

You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.  That's what the phones are taking away, is the ability to just sit there.  That's being a person.  Because underneath everything in your life there's that thing, that empty--forever empty.  That knowledge that its all for nothing and that you're alone.  Its down there. 

And sometimes when things clear away, you're not watching anything, you're in your car and you start going, 'Oh no, here it comes...that I'm alone.'  It starts to visit on you.  Just this sadness.  Life is tremendously sad, just being in it.

"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick," said Jesus.

But you've got to know you're sick first.