Spinoza reduced good and evil to whatever increases or diminishes our power of acting. He could not have foreseen institutions whose own persistence runs on the confusion of…
Tocqueville named a power that would spare us the trouble of thinking and the pain of living, and every honest reader must admit that this is something we want.
Our brains were built for movement, sunlight, and human contact. The post-COVID world delivers almost none of these. Fractured Lens shows how the modern lifestyle is dismantling the hippocampus: the brain's seat of reason - and why the erosion of critical thinking is now a civic emergency.
