We may be richer now, but by all socioeconomic counts, we’re increasingly miserable.
Tag - society
The digital economy created the Trump presidency. Algorithms were practically composed in mango-colored code in 2016.
The largest, most monolithic internet giants today run on incalculable troves of user info to do the most basic of human activities: sell, sell, sell!
From the 24-hour news cycle to constant doom-scrolling on social media, the world is awash in negative thinking and the mentality that the next crisis is right around the corner.
I’m questioning whether the very concept of identity is helpful to the way we interact with one another, how we build communities, and how we communicate.
Liberty without sacrifice can quickly turn to misery. Is it really a shock that so many millennials report startling levels of depression?
Lasting change takes time and conversation.
Principled defenders of freedom have virtually no power in modern society, so why have they become the boogeyman for both left and right alike?
We must ask ourselves if we are living according to our nature of being active, living up to our values, and being good stewards of our talents.
While humming “Pomp and Circumstance” coming out of the shower the other morning, as one does in late May, I had one of those Proustian moments of long-forgotten remembrance: the final episode of Nickelodeon’s “Doug.”