A strange contradiction sits at the centre of modern life. Most people today communicate with more human beings in a single week than their grandparents might have encountered in a month. We send messages across continents. We join group chats with hundreds of people. We can video call relatives thousands of kilometres away. We can …
There was a time when silence inside a conversation did not feel dangerous. Somebody would finish speaking. Another person would sit with the words for a second. Maybe longer. There was room for confusion. Room for reflection. Room for emotional processing. Conversations moved slowly enough for people to actually arrive inside them. Now everybody is …