People are being pulled from what they love and is nourishing by systems which make certain people more money. (“Take me back to this time” in the comments.) It’s like you have options on what to eat, because someone is feeding you that.
But really nobody wants to eat that (“Let me compromise myself to be grand.“)
How did we decide to incentivize these tech systems? (i.e. SEO) And we wonder why things appear sour and misaligned.
I thought of someone spending their whole life in this rapacious cycle of me-me-me and yet always coming up feeling starved and dry. (“But if I have more and more, or push this on them so I could get more…”).
Am I naïve? Spend a day with a Fox at the Sanctuary. Clean its cage. It has a missing ear.
Imagine if that would undo it all. To make you feel something.
Deny yourself the meal, feed something, and be actually fed.
This should be the exchange most people consider, myself included.