Digital Liturgies

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Suffering In Front of a Screen

How long must we ignore the effects of the Internet on a generation's mental health?

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Samuel D. James
Apr 08, 2021
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Everyone agrees that mental health among Western people is remarkably poor. But comparatively few people seem to be willing to say that this is because of the Internet. I guess one reason is that blaming the Internet sounds crotchety and cliche; the people who lived the same time as Edison probably blamed their generation’s problems on incan…

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