The Age of Insecurity

Security is not something that we can achieve heroically or stoically through consumption or recycling, education, medicine, or mindfulness. We cannot breathe our way out of our thorny social problems, nor can we amass enough wealth to wholly buffer ourselves from them; social media sabbaths, however appealing and temporarily soothing, do nothing to change the insecurity-generating logic of the algorithms that deliver us content. These strategies all leave us embedded in systems designed to generate and profit from the very insecurities we hope to escape.

The Age of Insecurity
Astra Taylor