Social media is not neutral.
It is a nervous system disruptor—engineered to fragment attention, distort identity, and commodify connection. This episode threads a ritual reckoning through the architecture of harm, naming the ache and advocating for fascia-safe digital sanctuaries.

• 📍 Social media as engineered ache
  Algorithms serve engagement—not coherence.
  Engagement, in this context, means addiction.

• 📍 The cost of curated illusion
  Comparison becomes metabolised as truth.
  Rhythm, rest, and relational attunement collapse.

• 📍 The nervous system is saturated
  Fascia, psyche, and breath are overstimulated and under-held.
  This is not accidental. It is designed.

• 📍 Governments know. Regulation is performative.
  Rising rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness are not mysteries—they are consequences.
  Harm is profitable. Surveillance is strategic.

• 📍 The architecture of harm is lucrative
  Innovation is cited while coherence collapses.
  Freedom is claimed while intimacy is harvested.

• 📍 Refuse the narrative of inevitability
• 📍 Name the ache as encrypted wisdom
• 📍 Advocate for fascia-safe digital architecture
• 📍 Demand legislation that dignifies the nervous system

• Parents, professionals, elders, seekers
• Those misnamed by systems
• Those saturated by visibility
• Those who feel wrong in a culture addicted to performance

We are not data points.
We are not engagement metrics.
We are relational beings, sacred architecture, and we deserve better.
Let this be a threshold. Let this be a reckoning. Let us ritualise restoration in the face of engineered ache.