Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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So you have these new status hierarchies.
That's been true for a long, long time before social media.
So suppose you have boys trying to evaluate themselves.
Where am I among the other 15 boys in my class?
And there are lots of ways that I could be cool or not.
And there are lots of different sports that maybe I could be good on.
And so I'm not automatically condemned to the basement here forever.
And then you put them in a world in which there are all these signals and it's overwhelmingly based on your looks.
Now that was always, that was long been true for girls.
So it's horrible for girls, but now it's becoming the case for boys.
Cause you don't even get to show off your athletic prowess.
It's how do you look?
Do you look masculine, tough, dominant?
And so to put these poor kids who are suddenly, it's like you were happily enjoying childhood and now you're thrown into this seething cauldron of middle school and suddenly renegotiating this.
And you're looking for guidance to where?
To your parents?
To the people in your community?
No, to the streamers and social media people who are the most extreme, who have been able to garner the most likes.
So it's sick, it's cruel.
We have to let our kids develop in a relatively normal human social environment.
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