Modern Life & Disconnection
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Civilization Starts at Home: Order, Beauty, and Human Flourishing in a Digital Age
One of the great tensions of modern life is how to rebuild a genuinely human culture…
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Our Whole Lives Are Owed to Tech
The modern world is not only a curse It’s the easiest thing in the world these…
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Agency as the Antidote to Modern Suffering: How Habit, Attention, and Will Shape Human Flourishing
A Passive Age I’ve long been an advocate of agency—namely, digging deep despite challenges and suffering…
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We Have Mistaken Distraction for Rest
Why modern life leaves us exhausted instead of restored One of the worst swaps we’ve made…
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Why We’re So Tired All the Time
Modern exhaustion, overstimulation, and the loss of rest Why are we so tired all of the…
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Vacuums of Malaise: The Loss of Attention and the Crisis of Meaning in Modern Life
The deeper crisis beneath modern distraction I’ve spoken extensively in other pieces about the loss of…
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Why Nothing Feels Quite Real Anymore
Why does nothing feel quite real anymore? Because, to a large degree, it isn’t—at least not…
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Are We All Becoming Narcissists?
The modern crisis of the self Researching and diagnosing all kinds of people in our lives…
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The Loss of Focus is a Loss of Our Central Selves
Why modern life keeps pulling apart our attention Why can’t we focus? Increasingly more, we are…
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A Loneliness Epidemic of Our Own Doing: Why So Many People Feel Lonely Right Now
The foundation of loneliness in modern life People are often speaking about the loneliness epidemic—especially the…
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Why Everything Feels Like Too Much in Modern Life
The slow numbing of the human person Everything feels like too much in modern life to…
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Why We Scroll So Much
A search for something that never quite satisfies Why do we scroll so much? Many will…
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The Frenetic Pace of the Cyborg Age: Why What’s Precious Is Finite
On being overwhelmed, creative burnout, and the limits of human attention in a world that asks…
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Esse Quam Videre: Living Authentically in Modern Life
“Living authentically” has been a theme for some time, expressed online in a million ways and…
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The Kind of Tired That Sleep Doesn’t Fix: Acedia, Burnout, and the Loss of Meaning in Modern Life
There is a weariness of soul that we can all have—the kind of tired that sleep…
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Modern Digital Life: You’re Surrounded but Still Not Connected
Modern digital life gives us the impression we are connected. But instead of real, human connection,…
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Real Love is Presence: Attention is the Foundation for Healthy Relationships
Presence is a necessity in all healthy relationships; it’s what makes it real love, and it…
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Your Nervous System Wasn’t Meant for This: Anxiety, Burnout, and the Stress of Modern Life
So many people in modern life are finding their lives filled with chronic stress and a…
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