THE GRAVITY OF THE HIGH
How much human suffering can we watch through a screen before watching just becomes another way of looking away? In this episode, we examine addiction across two fronts: the chemical highs that pull people under and the digital algorithms that turn public breakdowns into consumable content. Drawing a line from the floating scene in Breaking Bad to the medieval courts of felo de se—where families concealed suicides to protect their estates from Crown forfeiture—we look at how shame and euphemisms keep us from naming what is actually happening. In this episode: The illusion of floating: Why the…
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