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Why you cannot tell if society is actually declining

I cannot decide if social media is destroying society or just making visible problems that always existed and this uncertainty about whether things are actually worse makes me feel crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind seeks to categorize complex social changes as either progress or decline, missing the simultaneous arising of both creation and destruction.

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