...”It’s a REAL danger. And somehow it must be controlled.”...
Articles are now being written about a pervasive loneliness which people are beginning to suffer and about a 33% rise in depression. Just today I read that Millenials are in more trouble than the Boomer generation was in respect to youthful energy for the future. Social media is the consequence of an already disconnected society which is the consequence of the increasing mobility of the population. People are just not made to leave home and family to live among strangers and, in some cases, to lead nomadic lives, without suffering for it. FB seemed like a way to reconnect, but we now know that the unseen power of that technology could hold the seed of a tyrannical control that would bring horrible suffering to all of us. Buy Vance Packard’s old books and read. He told us back then what was happening to the country in the wake of mobility, and he was prophetic. However, he had no clue how bad it would get with big tech.
Lack of family. 70% of marriage ends in divorce, initiated 80% of the time by the empowered female, convinced she needs neither a man, nor the kids, for the most part (since the marriage is for the kids, first and foremost).
No family, no roots. No roots, no perspective.
No perspective, and everything is pointless.