I love SDF. The main reason I've stuck around is that it forces me to
slow down. I used to think that older people slowed down with age in
a way that was tragic. The mind can't keep up and gets sluggish, I 
thought. But no, that's not it. I think it's a natural adaptation.
We should listen to our "slow" elders and emulate them--Slowing
down is an excellent natural remedy to our current technological
world of uber-fast media and constant non-stop social obligation
moving at the speed of light.

I deleted my Facebook a while back, and I never felt more liberated. 
A similar feeling of unburdening happens, though it is harder to 
achieve, when I slow down and read long form text. I think more 
people should read and write long letters. It's good for the soul.

Fast technology means fast thinking. That means reckless emotion.
Anxiety is higher than ever in the social media age. The tech does
this by design. It cannot possibly be healthy.

I remember reading somewhere that the average teen in 2020-something
has roughly as much anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the
1950s. That has to have something to do with the speed of things,
but I also think it has to do with the "Rat Utopia Experiments."
Google that. 

Basically, those experiments found that social creatures, when they
live too close together, will start to act as though they are in 
conditions of scarcity, even when they have more than enough of
everything they need to live. I think always-connected society is
creating what the scientist in that experiment called "behavioral
sink." Our brains are so bombarded by constant social input that it
begins to react as though it is in over-crowded conditions and the
animalistic survival mechanism kicks in. People need space, and that
includes mental space. Alone time. Processing time.

I need to write more to sort out my thoughts. Taking time to organize
them is healthy, and it cools down the ADHD nonsense a bit.