Little Children Wandering the Aisles of the Internet

Addiction isn’t just measured in time spent connected to screens but also in how it dulls our spiritual sensibilities. We use social media to blunt the edges of overwhelm, to find something to thrill us, to assert our correctness, to fit in, to feel like we mean something. Lacking digital constraint, we shout our opinions, amass information like it’s the source of life, use social media to perform our pain, or alternatively disappear into scrolling. Like Linus’s blanket, we hold on to our phones, scrolling to be productive or to soothe our deep fears of failure, our anxieties about the…