American Life Has a Big Paywall Around It. And a Bad Screen Addiction.

Normal American life as we used to know it has disappeared. Do you feel like you are buying something all the time? You are. Do you feel like technology has taken over? It has.

In the most insidious way, it has taken over normal life. We all have to find a way back somehow.

I recently watched a video by Tiktoker Amber that really affected me:

Amber continues, explaining that, in her opinion, isolation and the lack of real conversations in daily life are pushing more and more people to turn to therapy who might not need it so much if they could just get their social needs met. She says, “Nowadays everybody needs a therapist. Yes, therapy is needed for some things, but most people just need to be talking to people way more, and I don’t mean like trolling on the internet.”

As one commenter noted, “Capitalism takes away essential things then creates a service for u to pay for those things 😭😭.”

Amber also discusses how parents are impacted by the paywall on basic…