This isn’t merely a problem of content; it’s a problem of form. In other words, it’s not simply that on social media and the web we read sentences that devalue the physical. Rather, the nature of online presence itself powerfully reinforces the sense that we are not our bodies, that we have total control over our identity and our story, and that any threat to this feeling can and ought to be “deleted” so that we don’t have to put up with it.
