When does a society become too sick to participate in? At what point is a culture, or even just a part of a culture too corrupting to touch at all? When does a group of people become so deluded that they must be actively protested or even fought? 

The bit that concerns me is the goldilocks zone where a culture is just sick enough to be repulsive, but where removing oneself from that culture comes with more problems than solutions. 

Our society is undeniably sick. 
People are unhappy.
The way they live their lives is, in every sense of the word, unfulfilling.
This is because of the things they do to themselves:

The ways they eat,
the ways they entertain themselves,
the ways they pray.
Their phones. 

I’m writing this on a computer. 
I sit on a computer for the better part of most days. 
I don’t have a phone, but I don’t think that makes a difference. Our entire technological sphere has become one gigantic phone, as we udnerstand what a phone even is today, on this side of the iphone. 

Prohibition comes to mind.

Technology is a fundamental part of our society. I would suggest it is the foundation it rests on. It is also the thing that is killing us. The idea of raising a child in the context of such an eroding force is disturbing. This is made far more concerning by the fact that their future livelihood will almost certainly rely on the technology that hungers for their soul.

Guarding a child from something of this prevalence is like trying to protect them from sin itself. It is impossible, and the very attempt at totality is destructive. 

But attempting some level of protection seems necessary. 

We no longer live in the 1990s.
We know that unbridled technology is harmful.
Every person I know modulates and limits their use of technology and still, they would identify it as the chief negative influence in their life. If temperance isn’t working, what does that leave us other than prohibition?