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Thank you for articulating all of the things I’ve been feeling forever now and am always re-realizing over and over again. Since all of us being online 24/7 didn’t stop the election of terrible men, I am of course asking myself what good it was to be so informed and plugged in. And your point, “We’re spending all this time indulging voyeurism and inventing people to be mad at and then looking up at the real world and asking who let it all go to shit” is so true and so painful to really think about. I saw a video on IG that said people are going to bookstores again, like Foyle’s in London, because they’re bored with social media. I think we're not as “bored" as we are sick to death of the misery of online addiction. I am going to reread this piece of yours often, as I try to curtail my time online.

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