Hi, my friend @tarazkp. Very interesting your reflection on digital interaction and its possible effects. I agree that the excessive use of screens can have consequences, and it is an issue that touches many of us, even those of us who actively participate in platforms like Hive.

You raise a critical view of “degeneration”, but perhaps the motivation is not always an avoidance of human complexity or a simple escape from loneliness. Sometimes, as you mention about the lack of connection, the screen becomes a space to share or express oneself when confidants are not easily found in the physical environment. Not so much out of ‘hiding’ from complexity, but out of a search for connection that, for a variety of reasons, may not be available in other ways.

Your final call for intentionality and creating personal “new algorithms” resonates very much. Finding that balance between the digital and the physical is certainly the great challenge.