The Business of Broken Self-Worth in the Digital Age
29th June 2025
A new study from JAMA Pediatrics should stop us in our tracks: early adolescents who report addictive use of screens—not just frequent use—are more than twice as likely to consider suicide within two years.
And I would encourage them to do so. Think of it as evolution in action.
One of the most defective aspects of modern society, especially modern technological society, is its commitment to promoting the continued existence of people whom Natural Selection would otherwise be attempting to subtract from the gene pool.
The whole Cult of Self-Worth toward which everything in modern life seems to be pointed is just making the world worse for all of us.