I think jailbreaking from the middle distance is transformative and liberatory, and I don’t think it happens automatically by putting your phone away.

There’s such a strong public undercurrent now of what is often called nihilism, but when people say “nothing matters” out of hopelessness, they don’t mean literally that. Ironically, they often speak out of the feeling that something matters, deeply, yet it feels like they can’t protect or even touch it.

I’ve come to suspect that the greatest injury inflicted on us by the internet is its perpetual circumscription of perspective.