Jonathan Haidt

Think of all the books you read.

Take 70% of those out.

They have so much content to consume to keep up.

There's very little book reading.

Think about hobbies.

Did you have a hobby?

Take that out.

So you take out almost everything.

Because again, if the latest numbers are on average, American kids are spending seven to nine hours a day on entertainment and screen stuff, not counting school.

Seven to nine hours a day is the average, depending on how you count it.

So take childhood, take out almost everything that you valued in it.

and what's left.

Oh, that's a great objection.

And, you know, 10 years ago or 15 years ago, when I first saw Twitter and people sending out, oh, I just had a hamburger, I thought, God, this is so trivial.

But then as a social psychologist, I thought, well, actually, wait a second.

Like if you're like sort of checking in with your friends hundreds of times a day, that could be really good.

But what I've come to see is.

So the online world gives you multiple ways to connect virtually, which often lacks certain properties.

So the most important one is being synchronous.

So right now, you and I are synchronous.