The scroll was never neutral.
It trained the nervous system to fragment, the mind to skim, the soul to starve.
For years, attention was mined like a resource—harvested, packaged, sold back to us as relevance. But the machine is overheating. Engagement is flattening. Feeds feel hollow. Even dopamine is fatigued.
This isn’t just burnout.
It’s signal collapse.
What comes after the scroll won’t be louder platforms or faster content. It will be depth. Long-form thinking. Slower media. Smaller circles. People reclaiming their focus as a form of resistance.
When attention stops being currency, presence becomes power.
And systems built on distraction don’t survive that shift.
👉 Full article / source link: The New York Times — “The Internet Is Broken”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html—
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