Sublime

They both, he said, break our “addiction to ourselves.”

He told me bluntly that instead of acknowledging our limitations and trying to live within them, we have—en masse—fallen for an enormous delusion.

Disempowerment,” Michael told me, “is at the heart12 of poor health”—physical, mental, and emotional.

He believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”

In that case, it’s a bit criminal to say nothing more than, in effect, ‘Let’s placate them with medications so that they can cope with this damaging environment we’ve created.’

we are, collectively, experiencing “a more rapid exhaustion of attention resources.”