Western society has become a hollowed-out shell of communal life, where AI chatbots act as digital opioids providing addictive facsimiles of human relationships. These are symptoms of societal collapse, where atomization drives the masses to seek solace in algorithms.
seeing OPs headline and then theatlantic.com was some insane whiplash
Turns out even the lotus eaters are starting to question the value of all these flowers that tech has been selling.