A common theme to me over the past decade is an increasing cultural addiction to technology and more closely addiction to distraction. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops of today's technology are probably atrophying the minds of our youth and most people don't care. I seriously worry about the long-term impacts of technologies like TikTok, and wrote about them here.
Somehow we are all ok conducting a massive, population-wide experiment on our collective ability to think in exchange for comparatively minor benefit of fun distracting videos. Remember, these videos are fed to you entirely by AI out of China.