Filled with fancies and empty of meaning

From T. S. Eliot’s "Four Quartets", Burnt Norton, published in 1936.

Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker

Over the strained time-ridden faces

Distracted from distraction by distraction

Filled with fancies and empty of meaning

Tumid apathy with no concentration

This can't help but sound like the effect of social media on so many today as well as a description of the quality of our journalism and public intellectual discourse today, near a century after he wrote those words.