I find myself, I think, on my phone to avoid the times where I'm sitting at bed at night

thinking about, you know, bigger questions of meaning and purpose and existence that sort

of flood into your head when you're just by yourself.

And you tell yourself like, well, I'll distract myself with the news of the world and everything

else.

I feel like that's probably always been a struggle of humanity, but it might just be more

difficult now because you have phones and internet and other digital distractions to

distract you.

I think you're not alone.

I think what you describe, what you do is kind of constantly distracting yourself so

that you don't look at those deeper questions is what, you know, all of us are doing to

some degree or another.

And in a way, it's so tragic because, you know, we've, we've engineered this world that

actually allows us to have leisure time to reflect on these deep moral questions.

And instead of doing that, you know, we're playing League of Legends, right?

I mean, it's just so ironic, you know, that that given the opportunity to actually think

about, you know, again, you know, what is our meaning and purpose?

How should we be living in the world?

You know, how should we be engaging with one another?

You know, we, we're terrified of those questions and we're, you know, just wanting to sort of

titillate ourselves out of having to think about them.

I'm John Favreau.

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