Remains Irrefutable
I’m not convinced that time spent away from our feeds and infinite scrolling would necessarily lead all of us to elusive medical cures, artistic masterpieces, or world-healing peace negotiations. Most of us would watch television like we used to, or do nothing as we seem to have done before that. But one irrefutable condition in our current era is that something has made us more selfish, meaner, quicker to lash out, more likely to join a mob, more likely to scapegoat. And these phenomena at least coincide with the time we spend scrolling, and if the causal relationship I’m suggesting seems to you impossible or unlikely, the concurrence of these shifts remains irrefutable.
