gloom

This is one of the scariest charts I’ve seen lately

Animals become reclusive when they are scared or hurt — seeing the broader society send the same signal is a harbinger of things to come

The lack of physical connection is directly upstream of polarization, brain rot, collapse of trust, and all the other “discrete” issues

Would there be a deeper, seemingly disconnected reason?

For example, some analysts show 2008 is the peak of conventional petrol extraction (meaning the globe is extracting less petrol per year since then; excluding some recent, limited practices in North America). Everything depends on petrol, notably most economies. Less petrol would mean less activity, cutting jobs. This looks sadly coherent with the curve trend…