Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith believes we live in a time when many people feel like they are caught in a “tangled web of angst.” He compares the home of a teenager today to that of previous generations: “The home was a space to let down your guard, freed from the perpetual gaze of your peers. You could almost forget yourself. You could at least forget how gawky and pimpled and weird you were, freed from the competition that characterizes teenagedom. No longer. The space of the home has been punctured by the intrusion of social media such that the competitive world of self-display and
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