Paul Rosolie

Chances are there are people in your community or your family or species or a little forest that's about to be bulldozed by a housing development or people that need help getting out of poverty.

And instead of being worried about the entire planet's fate at all times, we're not built for that.

We're village animals.

We're not supposed to be worrying about the floods in Bangladesh at any moment.

And so I think that the screens put it right in front of your face where at any moment on earth, there's a million miracles and a million tragedies happening.

And the fact that we're getting it fed straight to our faces is not natural.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the other thing is that you're competing on a global scale.

If you're the best guitar player in your town, it's like, yeah, but you go on TikTok and there's somebody that's even better in Sri Lanka.

And it's like, well, you're competing with 8 billion people.

Good luck.

And so I think whether you're the strongest, you're the best at jujitsu, the best singer, whatever it is, there's going to be someone stronger, faster, better equipped for it.

And I think that it almost de-incentivizes people to even start.

Well, I grew up with the oak trees and the maple trees and the sycamores.

Going out in the woods as a kid, I always wanted to be able to drink the streams.

I always wanted to be able to find a part of the woods that would just go on forever.

I'd go out and get lost, go camping by myself by like 12, 15 years old.

But then you'd come out the other side of a state park.

And I'd be like, man, like there's more roads.