The universe in which we live is a vast, impossibly infinite place.
Yet when I consider most of my distastes for our modern society the origin tends to fall towards the over-connectivity in which we experience.

The constant, grinding, pressure of over-connectivity to other humans that has been established in our latest decades.

Not only in the form of conforming to a globally standardised social system, but in the constantly operating, instantly shareable, perfectly capturing and yet context lacking memory devices which prevent an increasing majority of potential experiences from developing due to the unrelentingly powerful anxiety they create.

Such thoughts make it perfectly natural, to lay blame on two key foundations that do seem, for their own part, to directly cause this: social media; and governmental systems; some may even go a step further and blame capitalism as a whole.

Although I won’t necessarily dismiss these blames entirely, I have come to think there is something far more fundamental at play here, and by solving the root cause, the issues of governments and overly-social medias no longer seem quite so dramatic. As far as I see it, the core problem with humanity - at it’s current moment in time - is simply that we’re all far too close together.

Now, at first, this may sound either: a little obvious; or plain stupid; but I promise there is reasoning behind this statement. I believe we humans are simply not meant to know, interact with and be so instantly accountable to so many of ourselves at once - paired with those of us in the 1st world having our fundamental needs met - and it’s a recipe for disaster. We are slightly smart apes, and we require a mix of both order and chaos to properly function, we require order for our day to day lives, yet chaos to find ourselves within.

My theoretical answer to this problem is simple to write, but extravagantly hard to execute: we must remember that our planet, is not our whole universe.