we walk through the world under constant assault by a never-ending digital stream of dogmatic opinions, envy-inducing advertisements, and doomsday news items. This incessant barrage of for-profit information, often delivered straight into our hands by addictively designed mobile devices, is enough to induce anger, fear, and confusion in anyone. But with the exception of our very real ability to render the planet incapable of sustaining human life in relatively short order, history shows that all the problems we face today are exactly the same ones ancient civilizations confronted—they’ve just
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