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Jan 11, 2022·edited Jan 11, 2022Liked by Blake Chastain

“Too many people know too much about each other”. Whoomp, there it is. Wow.

As for the point about electrical circuitry being an extension of the central nervous system: I heard a great description on a podcast recently of how we now "all have an emotion-inducing device which we carry around with us the whole time". It made me realise how I'd misread social media, Twitter in particular, as being an *information-providing* system. It is and has been that, but it's also (and often more importantly) an *emotion-inducing* system. This is something I've only fully appreciated rather too late – with a consequent toll on my mental health that is far greater than I'd realised. (And that, children, is how I came to delete my Twitter in November.)

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Wow those words from the past ring true.

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