You said not a false word in here, yet we could even tie all your points together to synthesize a higher truth: humans can't handle the volume of information they consume on a daily, or even hourly basis—mentally or emotionally. It's incredibly unhealthy and damaging, and they're also addicted to it.

I imagine you (I assume you're my age, anyway) grew up in the 80s and 90s, and your information diet probably went something like this:

* 20-30 minutes of the newspaper per day
* 1-3 hours a week or so of a magazine
* An hour or local + national TV news on weeknights

What's that ... *maybe* 2 hours a day of learning about the world? One in the morning, one in the evening?

Then, socially, what was that diet like?

* 5 minutes in between classes in school
* 30 minutes at lunch
* 1-2 hours after school for playtime
* 2-4 hours per week with extended family
* 2-4 hours per weekend at a function

I probably named 100 or so people, maximum, who gave you information. Most of whom you had some emotional investment in.

Contrast all that with today. Tell me we aren't consuming 10x or 20x the amount of info, now, and constantly, with thousands of people per day, all day, all via screens and disconnected from our capacities to action.

I type all this to you, a man I've never met, after consuming 35 minutes of morning news (on Medium!) before 530 a.m. local time.

I haven't even opened my NYT, WaPo, Atlantic, or Economist apps yet.

In between, I'll Google like 100 or so things, open dozens of browser tabs, read 200 emails, take 4 virtual meetings for six hours with a combined 32 people, text another 25 or so, and scroll through IG for 15 minutes, catching 50 people's stories and maybe an additional 30 people's posts, plus ads.

Most of the news will be bad, or so good I can't possibly live up to it.

Then it'll be 5pm, and I'll be so overloaded, depressed, and exhausted that I'll curl up on the couch w my partner, eat dinner, pour a stiff vesper martini or 3, and watch Killing Eve.

I can't possibly be the only one who does this. I can't possibly be the only person who knows humans weren't meant to be this connected, to this many people, to this much information, this often, for so long.

Oh, and now reread all that and imagine 70-80% of that info is disinformation or, at the very least, propaganda, spin, white lies, or manipulation.

Yeah. It's bad.