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It really didn't take long.
The internet sped up the rate of change in human society far beyond what we were prepared for.
In 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic hit, the already-connected world became increasingly dependent on social media as the public square of our respective societies.
What nobody realized, though, was that this level of exposure to the widest ranges of the human experience was unprecedented. The internet, nearly 30 years after its popularization, was still a new tool in the grand scheme of human development, and humans, though self-aware and sentient, are still relatively primitive animals. We were unprepared for that level of connectedness.