Don Martin

We blame that for disconnection.

But we've done that with everything.

In fact, we've been doing it for a really long time.

I went all the way back.

We even blamed loneliness on the written word.

Because if we were relying on the written word, then we wouldn't be using our memories to communicate with one another.

And that was going to create disconnection.

So we've done it with the written word.

We did it with the telegraph.

We also blamed disease on the telegraph, much in the same way that we blamed COVID on 5G.

We blamed loneliness on air conditioning.

We blamed loneliness on central heating.

We blamed loneliness on bedrooms.

Just the fact that people have their own room is a reason for loneliness.

Going back and kind of debunking that throughout the book, throughout the research, that it's not screens and it's not like these things are not causal.

They can be corollary.

They can be parallel.

They can be symptoms, but they're not causal.

And I think that was really fascinating.

These are the same thing.