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Loneliness. Apathy. Depression. Suicide. In our minds, a psychological "silent spring" is metastasizing like a cancer. We're hooked, addicted to the very cause of our affliction. Is this it — the End of Ecstasy? "What does it mean," asks Harry Flood, "when your Instagram feed is more interesting to you than your own child?" True, we can imagine a future divorced from social media, free from total surveillance. But can we break the digital spell? Perhaps, as with Robert Macfarlane, we might begin by relearning how to wonder.  
 

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At the start, the internet was still relatively scarce ...  

" iPhones were new; we were still excited about carrying portals to that utopia in our pockets and finding new ways to integrate two domains that were previously separate," writes Drew Austin. "Today, a growing number of people understand the internet as something more akin to an all-encompassing miasma, one that seeps into every available corner of the world to watch us, listen to us, commodify us, and manipulate us — a condition from which the only true relief is physically walling ourselves off."   [ Read Article ]( [link removed] )  
 

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Mindjourney: Underland  

"We know so little of the worlds beneath our feet. Look up on a cloudless night and you might see the light from a star thousands of trillions of miles away," writes Robert Macfarlane, "or pick out the craters left by asteroid strikes on the moon’s face. Look down and your sight stops at topsoil, tarmac, toe. I have rarely felt as far from the human realm as when only ten yards below it, caught in the shining jaws of a limestone bedding plane first formed on the floor of an ancient sea."   [ Take the Journey ]( [link removed] )  
 

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All you activists! All you creatives!
How do you see our burning world? Is there a way to extinguish the flames? Submit your essays, rants, photographs, cartoons, illustrations, poems, posters, etc. to [ [email protected] ]( mailto:[email protected] ) and/or to [ [email protected] ]( mailto:[email protected] ).
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