Before we look at how power works out there, we start with what is happening to you.

Why does a whole generation feel so driven, restless, and anxious — when no one is actually forcing them to be? This reading takes that question seriously and follows it in a strange loop: from the phone in your pocket, back through four hundred years of history, and home again to the phone.

Read it before our first discussion. Print it if you like to annotate.