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For heavy internet users, repeated interaction with this darkness can become a source of draining negativity—a steep price that many don’t even realize they’re paying to support their compulsive connectivity.

Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism

4. The High Cost of a Phone-Based Childhood

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Margret Atwood in The Atlantic feeld Murdered by her Replica and compares the AI-copyright situation to the scifi-horror-classic The Stepford Wifes: "In that 1975 horror film, the human wives of Stepford, Connecticut, are having their identities copied and transferred to robotic replicas of themselves, minus any contrariness that their husbands... See more

Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Today, there’s the exclusion of conservatives from academic life. Then there’s the exclusion of working-class voices from mainstream media. Our profession didn’t used to be all coastal yuppies, but now it mostly is. Then there’s the marginalization of those with radical critiques — from say, the Marxist left and the theological right.

David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)

Let me be clear: there is no way to make social media safe for children by just making the content less toxic. It’s the phone-based childhood that is harming them, regardless of what they watch . Kids need to be freed from the grip of smartphones and social media, especially through early puberty. This is why two of the four norms I propose for

Jon Haidt • Marshall McLuhan on Why Content Moderation Is a Red Herring

Dating Apps and the Perils of the Sexual Marketplace

Charlie Huntington M.A., Ph.D., LPCC psychologytoday.com

“The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of a diminution of personality.”