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A Deeper Dig on Depression: How Technology has Cheapened Your Joy

The disconnect between our “happiness” and happiness explained by two of our greatest minds

7 min readJul 20, 2024

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Break out your wackiest Pit Viper shades because the future is bright, and we’re about to ride the wave of a burgeoning technological revolution!

Virtual Reality has broken free from the bindings of Sci-Fi novels; soon we’ll be sipping margaritas on the Moon, and installing neural implants so we can thought-comment on our besties’ videos.

Even now, everything we could dare to dream of can be delivered by technology, with just a tap or swipe.

Our favorite restaurant guilty pleasures can be bussed straight to our door (without ever having to even speak to another human, too!); our boring emails written by AI and our virtual assistants, and even our carnal urges and pleas for affection can be answered at our beck and call (with a few credit card numbers, of course).

Yet, trailing this era bursting with promise, there remains a dark cloud of looming nostalgia. It seems everyone, subtly, unanimously, agrees that for some nondescript reason, things were “better in the past.”

To boot, we’re spending more time indoors and our health certainly isn’t improving.

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Surviving Modernity (Celeste)
Surviving Modernity (Celeste)

Written by Surviving Modernity (Celeste)

Mother; survivor; defeater of complex chronic and mental illness. A hermit from the wildwoods sowing little wisdoms, personal growth, & dangerous ideas.

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