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 …
A human brain was never designed to emotionally process the pain of millions of strangers in a single day. That may sound dramatic, but it explains a strange emotional reality many people now live with. We swipe past images of war while having our morning tea or breakfast. We watch flood victims moments before a …