If we have become dependent on television, on drugs, and on facile calls to political or religious salvation, it is because we have so little to fall back on, so few internal rules to keep our mind from being taken over by those who claim to have the answers.
— Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (43%)
These words were written more than three decades ago, but they ring as true today as ever (although I'd substitute social media for television these days).