The exhilaration we may encounter from our digital lives often make the boring and complex nature of our everyday lives seem all the more onerous. In many ways, these unintended outcomes of our digital ecology merely bring to the fore what has circumscribed our human condition from the start: as human beings who have strayed from the source of life, we often feel trapped by our circumstances, unable to satisfy our appetites, and bent on establishing control as a source of security. While these very human instincts have always existed, the digital ecology we have created powerfully reinforces
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