End the Internet for Anyone Under 25

A Policy Proposal for the Reclamation of the American Mind

I. The State of the Digital Serf

America’s youth are no longer free citizens. They are serfs, not to kings or conquerors, but to a glowing slab of Chinese plastic they cradle like an infant and stroke like a lover.

The servitude is voluntary. They line up for it. At the Apple Store, they clasp their palms over a glass rectangle as if St. Peter himself wer…