We have not done a good job of being on the lookout for these. But have assumed, if a lot of people are doing it (whatever it is) it must be a good thing.
Not so, we have bad habits in abundance, and many of them are social.
The tendency towards group think has been reinforced by the social media, and the advertising that drives it.
This is one of the undesirable effects of the Computer and its networks, the Internet and the Cellular. They have created new forms of power, that we do not know how to cope with.
Our moral instincts were weakened by the Industrial Revolution. That also introduced new forms of power - quite literally. Power derived from the burning of fossil fuels.
This also introduced new forms of violence, against the indigenous peoples - and between the rich countries also, on a global scale.
I went back and took another look at Tim O'Reilly's Gradually, then suddenly this morning. He did not mention the biggest problem of all - the tendency for people to disappear, to not exist.
This is the ultimate lifestyle - if you want to call it that.
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