Over stimulation

The world is completely overstimulating, and it's terrifying.

It's terrifying as an adult, so I can't imagine how it feels as a child.

All I know is I'm worried for my kids.

Noise, bright lights, screens and a endless supply of immediate release dopamine is pure poison for the mind.

We have paleolithic instincts, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.

This is not what we're built for.

We have evolved as a species for prolonged periods of boredom, reflection and quiet rumination punctuated by brief periods of excitement - usually in the form of running towards or away from something.

We have evolved to be in small, tight-knit, trusting communities that communicate and cooperate to survive.

We have evolved to walk for long distances, to explore and see the world for its natural slow beauty.

We most certainly have not evolved for endless fast flipping videos, constant loud repetitive music and unfettered access to more and increasingly aggressive pornography than one would care to consider.

No wonder nobody can concentrate anymore. That nobody can sleep. That relationships are falling apart.

Of course diagnoses of ADHD are skyrocketing.

It's not ADHD, it's incompatibility of mind and environment.

Put a fish in a tree and it's going to die. There was nothing wrong with the fish, it just shouldn't have been anywhere near a tree in the first place.

Our children are becoming more miserable, more anxious, more self-conscious and more tired.

All the while they're steadily less able to focus and learn. They sit alone on devices that are hard wired to hold their attention and never let go.

We need to slow down, to quiet the mind, to reflect.

We need to sit by the fire as a family and read stories from old musty books with worn spines and well thumbed pages.

We need to be bored.

Our life depends on it.