> So we try to optimise to avoid it, to mitigate it, reduce the attack vectors.

So we evolved to create a device / technology that creates expectations and an environment that are entirely counter to our evolutionary upbringing?

We now expect to stop what is impossible to stop (i.e., life)?

And we can't stop ourselves to stop wanting to stop that thing (again, life)?

And we've normalized and culturalized all this to the point that we blame the device and anyone but ourselves for our own decisions and actions?

Surveillance Capitalism... is a certified success.

p.s..Parents have / did care. But they generally didn't feed an unhealthy paradigm. They had a reasonable sense of what mattered, when, and why. Their foundation was trust, not fear; and often they had faith (which is something the paradigm has convinced so many they don't need).