Jonathan Haidt

And so in a sense, that was a legitimate reason to think like, whoa, this is much broader than we thought. But at the same time, crime and danger was plummeting then. And we didn't really pick up on that. But it's that we lost trust in our neighbors. And one way we can see this is the same. Same thing happens in Canada and the UK where they don't have the high crime rates that we do.

And so in a sense, that was a legitimate reason to think like, whoa, this is much broader than we thought. But at the same time, crime and danger was plummeting then. And we didn't really pick up on that. But it's that we lost trust in our neighbors. And one way we can see this is the same. Same thing happens in Canada and the UK where they don't have the high crime rates that we do.

And so it's just around the Anglosphere, we change, we spend all our time on television, we don't know our neighbors, and we lose trust.

And so it's just around the Anglosphere, we change, we spend all our time on television, we don't know our neighbors, and we lose trust.

And so it's just around the Anglosphere, we change, we spend all our time on television, we don't know our neighbors, and we lose trust.

What I'm coming to see is that you have to keep your eye on technology because technology changes so fast. And then the downstream effects of technology are so vast. So the arrival of television had huge effects. Then television going to cable with hundreds of channels has huge effects. And then microcasting and then cable to social media, micro microcasting.

What I'm coming to see is that you have to keep your eye on technology because technology changes so fast. And then the downstream effects of technology are so vast. So the arrival of television had huge effects. Then television going to cable with hundreds of channels has huge effects. And then microcasting and then cable to social media, micro microcasting.

What I'm coming to see is that you have to keep your eye on technology because technology changes so fast. And then the downstream effects of technology are so vast. So the arrival of television had huge effects. Then television going to cable with hundreds of channels has huge effects. And then microcasting and then cable to social media, micro microcasting.

I see that you have Yuval Noah Harari's book on your shelf, Nexus, in there. He says often democracy is a conversation. Well, what happens when that conversation moves on to Twitter? It becomes much more polarizing and disparate and fragmented. So, yes, that's what we're talking about here, the way that technology changes everything about our political lives. But to return to the children. Yeah.

I see that you have Yuval Noah Harari's book on your shelf, Nexus, in there. He says often democracy is a conversation. Well, what happens when that conversation moves on to Twitter? It becomes much more polarizing and disparate and fragmented. So, yes, that's what we're talking about here, the way that technology changes everything about our political lives. But to return to the children. Yeah.

I see that you have Yuval Noah Harari's book on your shelf, Nexus, in there. He says often democracy is a conversation. Well, what happens when that conversation moves on to Twitter? It becomes much more polarizing and disparate and fragmented. So, yes, that's what we're talking about here, the way that technology changes everything about our political lives. But to return to the children. Yeah.

So we knew that overprotection was a piece of the story, but it couldn't explain this incredibly sudden sharp turn up around 2013 in many, many countries. And so in the coddling, we had about a page or two where we said, no. Social media really comes in around the right time. Facebook opens up to the world around 2007.

So we knew that overprotection was a piece of the story, but it couldn't explain this incredibly sudden sharp turn up around 2013 in many, many countries. And so in the coddling, we had about a page or two where we said, no. Social media really comes in around the right time. Facebook opens up to the world around 2007.

So we knew that overprotection was a piece of the story, but it couldn't explain this incredibly sudden sharp turn up around 2013 in many, many countries. And so in the coddling, we had about a page or two where we said, no. Social media really comes in around the right time. Facebook opens up to the world around 2007.

Maybe that influenced what we then knew was Gen Z. And especially around 2011, 2012, it gets much more viral. So we speculated, you know, maybe it has some, but we don't know. Well, that was what we wrote in 2017. And after the book came out, some researchers challenged me and said, oh, you can't say it's social media. There's no evidence. I said, really?

Maybe that influenced what we then knew was Gen Z. And especially around 2011, 2012, it gets much more viral. So we speculated, you know, maybe it has some, but we don't know. Well, that was what we wrote in 2017. And after the book came out, some researchers challenged me and said, oh, you can't say it's social media. There's no evidence. I said, really?

Maybe that influenced what we then knew was Gen Z. And especially around 2011, 2012, it gets much more viral. So we speculated, you know, maybe it has some, but we don't know. Well, that was what we wrote in 2017. And after the book came out, some researchers challenged me and said, oh, you can't say it's social media. There's no evidence. I said, really?

Wait, I saw all kinds of studies that did show at least a correlation, a couple of experiments. So I started gathering all the studies I could find in these big Google documents. You go to anxiousgeneration.com slash reviews. You can find all these Google documents where we collect all the evidence on one side, all the evidence on the other. We organize it by method.

Wait, I saw all kinds of studies that did show at least a correlation, a couple of experiments. So I started gathering all the studies I could find in these big Google documents. You go to anxiousgeneration.com slash reviews. You can find all these Google documents where we collect all the evidence on one side, all the evidence on the other. We organize it by method.

Wait, I saw all kinds of studies that did show at least a correlation, a couple of experiments. So I started gathering all the studies I could find in these big Google documents. You go to anxiousgeneration.com slash reviews. You can find all these Google documents where we collect all the evidence on one side, all the evidence on the other. We organize it by method.