17th century French mathematician, philosopher, and inventor Blaise Pascal attributed all of humanity's problems to man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
I don't know the context behind this statement.
But definitely this rings more true today than it would have 4 centuries back.
If I were to revise this observation for today's context, here is how I would put it:
Half of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone, and another half from man's inability to have genuine, authentic conversations with others and see a different point of view.
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