It's past time to reevaluate the social contract. Unprecedented social ills, including record-breaking levels of mental illness and addiction, secondary to a widespread, pernicious breakdown in community have led to more people feeling adrift, empty, and angry than ever before. Is the fix about optimizing our individual interactions with social systems, or is the only possible cure systemic change?

Four months from the 2024 presidential elections, as Americans describe themselves as unprecedentedly burnt out on our own politics, why...