In an age of outrage, fear and division, perhaps the answer isn’t arguing online at all. Perhaps the answer is to get in a car, hit the road, and rediscover humanity for yourself

There’s a heaviness hanging over the world right now, a constant low-level hum of hostility and hysteria that seems to seep from every screen, every scroll, every headline and every furious finger-pointing debate, to the point where it increasingly feels as though humanity itself is splintering into suspicious tribes glaring angrily at each other across digital barricades. Fascism, prejudice, racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-immigrant sentiment, political extremism, culture wars, endless outrage, all of it amplified and accelerated by algorithms that have quietly learned one brutally simple truth about human beings: fear keeps us engaged. Fear keeps us scrolling. Fear keeps us clicking. Fear keeps us angry.