Our entire society has been flooded with low effort high (short term) reward entertainment activities. Psychology has been weaponized to optimize addictive beh

Our entire society has been flooded with low effort high (short term) reward entertainment activities. Psychology has been weaponized to optimize addictive behavior loops. Instead of going outside and talking to people being the norm, now people have to make a concerted effort to pull themselves away from their psychologically addictive pocket sized happy fun device, convince others to do the same, and then arrange a time to go out. Socializing is messy, painful, and difficult. But for the majority of human civilization, there weren't very many alternatives for entertainment!