Welcome back to Talks with Turnie. Over the last two episodes, we wrestled with the hard mechanics of digital health hype and the trillion-naira financial maneuvers of heavy industry. But today, we are turning the mirror inward. Today, we address the silent, pervasive crisis underlying almost every modern conversation across our societies: The crisis of internal peace and the erosion of absolute truth.

Look around you. We live in the most interconnected, technologically advanced era in human history, yet global data from the World Health Organization shows that global anxiety and depressive disorders have surged to unprecedented highs. We are overwhelmed by choice, inundated by 24-hour algorithmic outrage, and suffocated by what social scientists call 'existential dread.'

In a culture that preaches 'live your ...