thralldom

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Critics and Cassandras of our thralldom to secondhand experience via the Internet are hardly scarce — Jaron Lanier, Evgeny Morozov, and Clifford Stoll are only among the most cogent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2022

I can readily understand how anyone under the influence of kingo could be dragged into a gruesome form of thralldom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her characters�Chloe, Marjorie and Grace�do indeed twitch to nature's rhythms, but the thralldom of their bodies is endlessly amusing to their unfettered minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

But King Mahendra refuses to swap isolation for the thralldom of any great power, steadfastly pursues a policy of nonalignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is obviously true that those clairvoyants were very much oftener beholders of the spirits of those still dwelling in mortal forms than of those who had escaped from thralldom to the flesh.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen