The internet is great. A kid even in bumfuck nowhere can today, with a 100$ phone or computer, browse the biggest encyclopedia ever written in human history, read every book every published more 100 years ago (or more recently, if willing to pirate), watch lectures from the world's top universities and professors in subjects from physics to art conservation, listen to more concerts that you'll ever be able to in your entire lifetime, etc etc etc, all for FREE. Tell someone even 30 years ago that she would be able to hear the best orchestras in the world, on-demand, from rural Macedonia or whatever, at no charge, and it would be a vision of an utopian future. And yet here it is.

Unfortunately when you buy a phone you don't get a link to libgen or a youtube account with DW Classical or Veritasium pre-installed on your phone screen. You get tiktok and instagram and similar slop. If even adults are vulnerable to these turbo-addictive attention harvesters, how can kids hope to escape?