Sublime

we have created a world in which forgiveness has become almost impossible,

Third: somebody is your “friend” if you regularly look at their edited highlight reels, and they look

What if changing the way we live—in specific, targeted, evidence-based ways—could be seen as an antidepressant, too?

One: ban surveillance capitalism, because people who are being hacked and deliberately hooked can’t focus. Two: introduce a four-day week, because people who are chronically exhausted can’t pay attention. Three: rebuild childhood around letting kids play freely—in their neighborhoods and at school—because

Our attention and focus have been raided, pillaged, and poisoned by huge external forces—and we have been told to do the equivalent of dusting our homes and washing our hands more, when we should have been doing the equivalent of banning lead paint and petrol all along.

He felt that he was seeing people become more unempathetic, angry, and hostile as their social-media use went up.

Our schools allow kids less exercise. They allow kids less play. They create more anxiety, because of the frenzy of tests. They don’t create conditions where kids can find their intrinsic motivations. And for many kids, we don’t give them opportunities to develop mastery—the sense they are good at something.

I started to see depression and anxiety as like cover versions of the same song by different bands.

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and