 The bulk of humanity, as a collective, is in an addictive state, which means that we are trying to meet needs that cannot be met by the things that we're using to meet them. Well, for one, just like on a very practical level, the problem today is not actually scarcity, even though there are hundreds of millions of people living in dire scarcity, the problem is the distribution of wealth, the problem is inequality, the problem is waste. The world wastes several times more food than is required to feed all the hungry people on earth. But we try to grow our way out of these problems. The economic problem of debt right now, the enormous levels of debt that people are basically, you know, in service you do, enthralled to. Also, like the only viable economic solution in our current setup is to grow our way out of debt. So anyway, but the basic pattern of trying to meet a need that is a genuine need in today's world, the need on an individual level is for community, for connection, for intimacy, for purpose. And these are not readily available when we are so cut off, so standardized, have been made into subjects of a market, into consumers, into functionaries of one sort or another, where we look outside and, you know, do you know the name of every tree? Do you know what medicine it's used for? Do you know what kind of birds live there and what seasons? Are you in a web of relationship with it? Do you look out at faces every day beyond your own little family, who you know intimately and who know your story, and who are part of this web of relationships that makes you feel at home in the world? No, probably not. I know I don't. And that leaves me feeling on some level, and I'm not like a miserable person, but on some level leaves me feeling lonely, alienated, not at home in the world, like not fully at home in the world, which is what wealth really is. Wealth is to be fully at home in the world. So lacking that, of course, people are seeking to control, to accumulate, to dominate, to make up for this cut off from the source of real security, which is embeddedness, which is connection, by achieving more and more fake security, which is control. So this is the essence of civilization's addiction. It's the addiction to control. That's what technology is.