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When pilgrimage becomes performance for social media

I drove six hours to visit this famous cathedral but spent the whole time taking photos for Instagram instead of actually experiencing anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to document and share has replaced the capacity to receive and absorb.

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