Modern Problems Require Ancient Solutions

What's the brainrot antidote?

2024 has been a year marked by disinformation and disconnection.

From Oxford's word of the year—'brain rot'—to Pantone's muted color palette supposedly signaling our collective desire for comfort, the year has exposed our ever deepening social fragmentation. Global election cycles, political turbulence, digital enshittification, TikTok clip farming, and industries like fashion reeling from financial losses and CEO musical chairs. We've reached a point where even voting is reduced to an in-the-moment transactional calculation as fleetingly mundane as the current price of eggs.

But beneath it all lies something worth solving: our growing inability to reflect deeply or prioritize choices that honour the needs and well-being of generations to come. 

We are simultaneously inheritors of past choices and architects of future possibilities.

Now, as we approach the end of 2024 and start down the path towards a whole new batch of uncertainties ahead, I can’t stop thinking about the Seven Generatio…