Comment by tackta

Compared to what though? When was this golden age when things were not scary or turbulent?

If you read about life in the 19th century, it was more turbulent than today with change.

We seem to frame these debates against some random week in spring 2017 that if it ever existed at all, was extremely fleeting.

I think the bigger issue is that social media doesn't exactly provide historical context. If anything it provides a type of ahistoric , hysterical context to the present moment.

Then if you have no social media, everyone feels more and more like a hysterical lunatic living in a reality that doesn't exist if you just go outside and put the phone away for 5 minutes.