A world drowning in misinformation, depression, existential isolation, conspiracy cults, wellness circuses, creeping fascism, resurgent white supremacy, and the degradation of humanity’s collective attention span isn’t exactly crying out for more social media. That’s like turning to booze to deal with a drinking problem. Or capitalism to fix the climate crisis. You see this thing ruining all this important stuff? Perhaps we need more of it? It’s a fucking wonder we get our pants on each morning.

Today, the world’s actually powerful – read: the obscenely wealthy – do not need to do this (fight over bodies) because they instead own the levers to our scattered, atomised minds. 

Source: Whoever wins, we lose – The Shot