“If the crisis is a force of nature, ‘screens’ destroying civilisation like some technological weather system, then there’s nothing to be done but write elegiac essays from a comfortable distance. But if the crisis is the product of specific design choices made by specific companies for specific economic reasons, then those choices can be challenged, regulated, reversed.”

https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem

“My dear, you must be careful. The men in masks are lonely. Don’t go near them. Their hearts are the hearts of wolves. They hide their faces and decorate their loneliness. They dress their isolation in the wolfish symbols of the state. Their flag is a flag of darkness. Their God is not a god. Their language is not a language. It is the deathbell of truer speech. An angry animal of sound.”

https://lithub.com/a-letter-to-my-daughter-after-the-murder-of-a-poet/