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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