Today’s young adults are the most highly-educated age group of all time, outperforming their parents and grandparents in the race for higher education and post-graduate studies. After years of studying, training our minds to expand with the vast knowledge of the entire human experience—including physics, biochemistry, ancient philosophy, and modern art—our brains are brimming with information… A little too much information. Consequently, while drowning in this wealth of knowledge, young people have come to realize the true meaning behind the phrase, «ignorance is bliss.»

Burdened by the massive weight of knowing too much causes us to crave simplicity. While knowledge is power, knowledge is also exhausting. It leaves its victims to overanalyze, overthink, and stew in the stress of a flawed world that they fully understand but cannot change. If only there were some sort of killswitch that could shut down the anxious thoughts and the woes of informed adulthood…