And that, the distiller knew, was the true danger of the drink. A man who climbed the hill with a real question and drank honestly rarely returned with the comfort of his old certainty. He came back with something rarer and less restful: a deeper way of seeing.

We are living through a period of extraordinary technological change, and people can experience that change in very different ways. For some, the rapid expansion of AI, social media, and digital life raises serious questions about what may be happening to human connection, instinct, attention, responsibility, and community.