Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world:
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Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time?
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Why are so many of us obsessed with distraction and managing our attention?
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Why is it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others?
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And why does everything in art and design seem the same these days?
A week ago, I didn’t think these questions were related. I’m not sure I would have told you I had a good answer to most of them. And I certainly wouldn’t have made the audacious and borderline bonkers claim that one single theory could begin to explain all of them, at once.
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