Sarah Nyhan

You spend too many hours staring at the screens. Doom-scrolling. Just one more hit. A casino for your mind. Maybe one day you’ll win the jackpot.

So you don’t have to face your feelings.

Okay, I’ll be one of the first to confess. Before it becomes cool. Or popular. Here it is: I think I lost the last thirty years of my life to the Internet. And that is fucking sad.

I know too much information.
But I lost all common sense. 

And it’s not just the cell phones. Maybe it started even with books. Then radio. Then television. Anything to keep the feelings away. Anything that will distract. 

Our brains, man. I think they are hard-wired to avoid pain. Even when doing so kills us. Survival is the body’s goal. Not thriving. Seems like.