I share all these thoughts. It’s a remarkable set of phenomena that produced the world we have inherited. Your writings in particular, however, give me hope that there are solutions to our problems.

I have found some grace for the boomers, who as young people in the 60s and 70s noticed many of the problems with modernity, but lacked many of the tools we now have to communicate with one another and opt out successfully.

Imagine recognizing that parenting was broken and seeking out advice at the local library only to be handed Freud and Ferber, whose basic premises were “everyone wants to fuck his mom” and “you should let babies cry until they stop crying”.

Yes, must do better. And importantly, we possess the tools to do so.

But I do pity the boomers, many of whom knew there was a better way, and even sought it, only to come up with nonsense, before finally capitulating to the machine.