Social media is not neutral.
It is a nervous system disruptor—engineered to fragment attention, distort identity, and commodify connection. This episode threads a ritual reckoning through the architecture of harm, naming the ache and advocating for fascia-safe digital sanctuaries.
📍 Social media as engineered ache
Algorithms serve engagement—not coherence.
Engagement, in this context, means addiction.📍 The cost of curated illusion
Comparison becomes metabolised as truth.
Rhythm, rest, and relational attunement collapse.📍 The nervous system is saturated
Fascia, psyche, and breath are overstimulated and under-held.
This is not accidental. It is designed.📍 Governments know. Regulation is performative.
Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness are not mysteries—they are consequences.
Harm is profitable. Surveillance is strategic.📍 The architecture of harm is lucrative
Innovation is cited while coherence collapses.
Freedom is claimed while intimacy is harvested.
- 📍 Refuse the narrative of inevitability
- 📍 Name the ache as encrypted wisdom
- 📍 Advocate for fascia-safe digital architecture
- 📍 Demand legislation that dignifies the nervous system
- Parents, professionals, elders, seekers
- Those misnamed by systems
- Those saturated by visibility
- Those who feel wrong in a culture addicted to performance
We are not data points.
We are not engagement metrics.
We are relational beings, sacred architecture, and we deserve better.
Let this be a threshold. Let this be a reckoning. Let us ritualise restoration in the face of engineered ache.
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