IMO The problem is that, for all these years, "digital tools" progress was highjacked in service of corporation’s goals. the tft spirit is kind of different in that respect.
> has actually kept us mentally paralysed, enchanted, in an era where deep human thought is more necessary than ever.
Every time I take a deep dive into "quality" journalism/academia/books, I 'm reminded that all that necessary "deep human thought" we crave is already out there for the taking. We don't need more of it or even better. We need more people do open their minds to it.
But if billions of those people amuse themselves to death with media, and millions fashionably consume their digital tools as they do for everything else in their life, I think you should solely blame the influence of crass capitalism for that.
Tft kind of ideas, are a solution-in-waiting, not the cause of it.