catholicexchange.com
2025-10-24
One of the appeals of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is the unique talent of the private detective to see beyond the apparent facts of a crime. He discovers and tests what look like unrelated threads from a criminal event that, in the end, prove essential to the resolution of the case.
There is a similar dynamic at work when examining the unrelated threads of the digital tech revolution, the explosion in online gambling and pornography addiction, and complicated grief after abortion.
We are living in an age of fast-paced digital evolution. In the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma, some of the leading players in Silicon Valley sounded an alarm about the very products they helped design and disseminate.
Chamath Palihapitiya, a former senior executive at Facebook tells us, "We wanted to psychologically figure out how to manipulate you as fast as possible, and then give you back that dopamine hit."