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How Connectivity Made Us Miserable

How Netflix, the iPod, and Facebook All Depict an Internet-Fueled Cultural Regression

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Samuel D. James
Jul 11, 2022
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At the risk of generational hubris and a very obnoxious kind of nostalgia, I would like to submit to you that circa 2008, Americans were, if not happier, at least having more fun. I would further like to submit to you that the dampening of this joviality is directly related to what I am calling connectivity: both the way that more and more of our life i…

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