Scrolling Ourselves to Death, by Dr. Marcus Peter

By Marcus Peter, Catholic World Report, Dec. 2, 2025

Dr. Marcus Peter is the Director of Theology for Ave Maria Radio and the Kresta Institute, radio host of the daily EWTN syndicated drivetime program Ave Maria in the Afternoon, TV host of Unveiling the Covenants and other series, a prolific author, biblical theologian, culture commentator, and international speaker. Follow his work at marcusbpeter.com.

Modern attention spans resemble the shattered remnants of what earlier generations possessed, and the digital ecosystem accelerates this fragmentation with relentless efficiency

The recent revelation that Meta employees privately compared themselves to drug pushers while the company suppressed evidence of severe mental health harms to children arrives with the subtlety of a fire alarm in a library. After all, nearly every adult with a pulse sensed this trajectory long before any whistleblower confirmed it.

The story reads less like an exposé and more like the belated acknowledgment of a cultural truth that parents, pastors, psychologists, and weary teachers have been articulating for years. The digital platforms that promised global connection have been engineered with an architecture of compulsion that aims for neurological capture rather than human flourishing. And the leaked comments from inside Meta merely expose the concealed inner logic of a system that functions through addictive mechanisms refined with clinical precision. …

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