.@tombielecki is right - this is paleo logic. But what I don’t get is when people think paleo life was socially and cognitively less demanding than modern life. Thinking out loud here, but...
there’s a reason IG and Twitter etc are so engrossing - we are literally made for this. Is it "more" than 10k years ago? Depends on what "more" is. Medium group (>8) dynamics over long periods of time are hella complex. We live in super tiny groups now, bulk is online.
Most people live alone or with like 4 others max, see a couple of people at work - of course our brains look for drama elsewhere.
And just because modern people see nothing but a wall of green in the woods, doesn’t mean there’s nothing there. We’ve evolved to be highly tuned pattern recognition machines - ask any long-time outdoors person abt what they see when in the woods.
Shifting that online is a shift in focus, but not in terms of processing going on. Idk - lots of paleo makes sense, in particular food stuff, but the social theorizing is often just that - theorizing, and with a solid dose of projection, imo.
