No. Depression and Anxiety always existed. There's two factors here:1.) When you have 7.6 billion humans, everything becomes more visible. Whether it's autism or depression or people who like taco bell. Everything scales. Water is just as abundant on Earth as technology is. Humans interact with water and technology. No one is blaming water for depression. Also technology started with rocks and sticks and mud. Did mud cause depression? 2.)Life is self-evident. If people weren't first susceptible to things like alcohol, depression, technology, etc. - they would never engage with it. Technology didn't give organisms addictive personalities or aggressive egos. It only gave us what we were already wanting.Humans love simple theories in the same way they love doritos and coca cola. It's cheap, it tastes good, and requires no self reflection.
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