So how do we find meaning in an increasingly meaningless and distracting world? Fortunately, there are multiple antidotes, the majority of which involve travelling back to a time in which social media, iPhones and targeted algorithmic advertising were still to be introduced into our lives. A world in which silence was prevalent, mental space was provided in abundance and our brains functioned more clearly with the absence of constant, fabricated and digital distractions. We must sacrifice our modernity. As a species we have spearheaded technological progress at such speeds with such impeccable advancement that we forgot the minor question of what it was all for. We never questioned the implications of such advancement and unfortunately theconsequences are rearing their ugly heads in the form of deteriorating mental health, increases in suicide, digital addictions, polarisation and more. Sometimes the answer to such complex issues is the simplest one: reverse theprogress. I’m not suggesting we get rid of our smartphones and technology and start from scratch, just that we take time without them. The cure to our diseased modernity is to take a break from it.