'Rogue Psychology' Needs You To Know That You're Running Out Of Time
'Rogue Psychology' Needs You To Know That You're Running Out Of Time
Keegan KellyWed, March 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
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Life is too short to spend it all on a mindless doomscroll. Take it from a 101-year-old.
Nearly everyone is addicted to their phones. Old, young, rich, poor – it's a fact of the modern world that the allure of a magic machine that provides instant and endless stimulation is simply too strong for the average human brain to have a healthy relationship with it. Rewiring our brains and breaking us out of the scroll cycle would take out-of-the-box thinking, bold experimentation and immense willpower. It would also take Marilyn Gross.
In the new episode of the experimental six-part docuseries Rogue Psychology, created by Ethan Cole and hosted by Jon Neeman, a centenarian embarked on a mission to cure our social media addiction by asking us a question: What if, every time we tried to open up Twitter, Instagram or Reddit, a woman at the end of her life begged us not to waste our own?
The logline of Rogue Psychology reads, “Can our biggest problems be solved with a few radical solutions? For example, can seeing a person in their final moments give you pause on your social media binge?”
“Part documentary. Part social experiment. Part ‘Should we be doing this?’ Rogue Psychology goes to extremes to improve human behavior.”
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To be clear, Rogue Psychology isn't flying blind here like some renegade doctor from the Middle Ages treating the four temperaments with a combination of leeches and cocaine. In the series, Neeman speaks to experts in psychology and sociology to work out hypotheses for how to change the human brain in a radical age of technology and content.
He meets with other specialists, too – like last week, when Neeman interviewed his own divorce lawyer before launching an app that would prevent failed marriages before they began by giving friends and family the opportunity to anonymously speak now or forever hold their peace:
It's a cliché on the internet to quote Chappelle's Show and say, “Modern problems require modern solutions,” but that's only because it's completely true – and we're still searching for most of those modern solutions. The sad fact of our modern media landscape is that the technology that influences our habits and behavior is, by design, manipulating our psychology to do it.
So can we use that same tech and rewire our brains for the better? Marilyn certainly seems to think so – and you don't live to 101 without learning a thing or two about your own mind.
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