Before it becomes medicine: Normal

Once something is called normal, we stop asking questions.

The longevity movement

Adding years is not necessarily adding life.

What would the world look like if human aliveness were treated as existential rather than a luxury?

Why do we resist directness?

The body doesn't need our permission to tell the truth about how we live.

We are past present and future at the same time and at all times.

We have begun to expect reality itself to operate at the pace of our devices.

What if patience is not always a virtue, but sometimes evidence that we've normalized what should never have been acceptable?

A contribution can be an achievement. But not every achievement is a contribution.

Perhaps what is ending is not social media itself, but the belief that scale creates belonging.