Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Jonathan Haidt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If I don't do everything I can to get you to stay on my platform, then he's gonna get you to stay on his platform.
So that all begins in earnest in the early 2010s, that savage competition.
And to throw kids into that, so kids' attention, kids' eyeballs are like the oil fields in Alaska, like everybody's competing to let's sink a drill and let's suck it out before someone else does.
Yeah, it is certainly playing a role in our minds too, but there's two reasons why I have focused on kids, three reasons or two or three, and why I don't talk a lot about adults.
Although I'm beginning to a bit more because adults are constantly saying to me, it's not just the kids, it's me too.
When we come to attention in particular, it's all of us.
But the reasons I focus on kids are twofold.
The first is that kids are going through this massive brain change.
I mean, from birth through puberty, and especially during puberty.
And so whatever weirdness, whatever weird scenario you're putting them in continually is gonna have much bigger effects and possibly permanent effects because their brain is literally changing from the child form to the adult form.
The adult form can take many forms.
In different cultures, we have slightly different brains in that culture got into our brain different from a Japanese person or an Indian person.
So the importance of acting quickly for children is much greater than it is for adults.
Adults, if we stop all this stuff, we'll get our brains back.
Our brains aren't being changed very much.
It's our habits that are making it hard for us to pay attention, but our brains will recover.
Johan Hari has a great book, Stolen Focus, where he...
He goes to Provincetown for three months for a summer and he gets his brain back.
So that's one.
The other is that we're a generally libertarian nation and I have a lot of libertarian sympathies and I don't want to tell adults what to do unless there's a really, really compelling reason for it.
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