Under the cover of darkness

Under the cover of darkness

For hundreds of thousands of years, until electric light arrived, humans were largely daylight animals, locked into nature’s eternal seesaw of sunrise and sundown. Nowadays, we seek endless ways to eat up the darkness and eke out more useful, productive hours. The gods of money and work must be appeased; even the late-night doomscroller, reading by the junk light of their phone, is feeding the online world’s market in twenty-four-hour noise. Mat…