‘I’m not on social media.'
Over the past lifetime I had seen the way it eroded democracy and gamified conflict, the way it splintered attention spans and polarized opinions to dangerous extremes, the way it devalued art and fed the leeches of artificial intelligence, the way it jacked adrenaline and manipulated dopamine and narrowed human awe to a singular flickering point.
Guys, this is why we should read books
— May 06, 2026 05:06PM
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