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Honestly, it's probably the phones
Maybe all the talking about the bad influence of smartphones and social media having a bad influence on young people is heavily exaggerated - and just an excuse to not bother much about making their living and learning conditions better, and caring more about the future world they gonna have to live in
Thinking of this piece the neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote before he died, on how he perceived smartphone use as essentially a neurological catastrophe.
He’s advocating for something like the opposite of mindfulness — instead, the problem is that we’re too stuck in the moment. https://t.co/Xm89Bt2jOW
"In the new book “The Anxious Generation,” the sociologist and pundit Jonathan Haidt links smartphone technology to escalating teen depression and other ill effects. “The members of Gen Z are . . . test subjects for a radical new way of growing up, far from the real-world interactions of small communities in which humans evolved,” he writes. “It’s
... See moreSo how is it that we have entered into our most digitally connected age ever yet loneliness is at an all-time high?
A few things come to mind:
A few things come to mind:
- The new ways we connect lack depth
- We face information overload from too many people we don't care much about
- We move locations and jobs more often
- Information is decentralized: we go to technology for
What the Loneliness Epidemic Says About the Way We Connect
The phone-based life produces spiritual degradation, not just in adolescents, but in all of us.