but that's also due to how many additional distractions we now have in front of us.
Yes. We have created myriad ways to not have to deal with pretty much every aspect of our lives, unless we choose. Who chooses work and pain? Not many, especially since it also takes discipline, something I am lacking a lot of.
The media is all about clicks polarization of audiences to get them outraged enough to attack or defend. The nuanced voices in the middle are not heard, because only the extremes shout loudly and often enough to bump the algorithms. This nudges more to each side, raising the instances.
It reminds me of the English countryside where more people want to escape the high cost of the cities, but end up building more homes in the countryside to the point where they just create the very thing they wanted to escape.
Right,. No matter where we escape to, we end up rebuilding what we know - because it feels familiar. We don't seem to see the error in our ways.