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Why Wicked: For Good is Undeservingly the ‘worse movie’
So… off the bat, we’re about to delve into something ridiculous. Just so we’re clear on that, ok? The first thing anyone that knows a thing about these dual movies… knows… is the original movie and sequel were shot together.
By Gabriel Shames5 days ago in Humans
The Loneliness Pandemic
THE PARADOX OF DIGITAL CONNECTION We carry devices in our pockets that allow instant communication with anyone on the planet, we have hundreds or thousands of social media connections, we can video call friends across continents in seconds, and we have access to more social interaction opportunities than any generation in human history, yet surveys consistently show that loneliness has reached epidemic proportions with over sixty percent of Americans reporting feeling lonely regularly, with rates highest among young adults aged eighteen to twenty-five who are supposedly the most digitally connected generation ever, and this paradox of increasing digital connectivity accompanied by increasing loneliness reveals a fundamental truth about human social needs that technology companies do not want you to understand: digital connection is not the same as genuine human connection, and substituting one for the other produces a form of social malnutrition where you feel socially fed because you are consuming social stimuli but are actually starving for the specific types of connection that your brain and body require for health and wellbeing.
By The Curious Writerabout 11 hours ago in Humans
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