Helen Lewis

You know, the church in which I grew up, we had Palm Sunday and Easter and then you have Harvest Festival and then Advent and Christmas.

You know, there is a sense of life's occasions being marked.

There are baptisms and funerals and

There is confession.

There's a chance to kind of offload your sins.

There are kind of rituals within that that are probably deeply helpful to people as anchors within their lives.

And while I can't say I have personal faith anymore, I think that it is a shame to have lost those structures in life.

And I don't know if there is a way to recreate them.

And I don't think any of this would be happening if we weren't all essentially spending six hours a day staring at a tiny little portal into madness.

Right.

And I wish I could give it up.

I feel like one of those people who goes, well, of course, eating meat is terrible.

And they're like, do you still like burgers?

I do.

And that's probably also true.

But with the digital world, we have essentially hooked everybody up to a little dopamine drip.

And I think that, you know, the effects of that are particularly on young people who are still forming their opinions.

If you look now at young men and women's

political attitudes.

You find this replication of young women are more left-wing and young men are more right-wing in lots and lots of countries now.