Yes, glyphosate poisons the crops, and beer isn’t what it used to be. But that’s not why people drink less. It’s not about health. It’s not about avoiding worse hangovers. Most would welcome more brain damage... if it helped them escape the pain of facing reality.

But they no longer drink to forget. They no longer need to.

Narcotics, algorithms, infinite scrolling are more precise, more effective, more sterile tools for numbing the abyss.