Since social media platforms are using the same techniques as gambling firms to create psychological dependencies, it is a lucrative opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to develop a drug that would break the cycle of addiction.
Just think of it: a drug that would counteract habit-forming modes of behaviour and, if universally medicated, benefit societies by freeing them from induced, commercially-motivated compulsions.
However, the drug itself would be a form of dependency.
Another way would be to have a mutually-supportive, societal belief system.
Unworkable, because creeds and their adherents are open to manipulation.
No, individuals and societies will only become truly free when a majority of people individually permit their psyche to recognise and counsel liberation from all forms of insidious bondage.
Geoff Naylor
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