Jonathan Haidt

In any case, the way to understand what's happening to boys I've come to see really more since writing the book is imagine your boy is out there in the world and these sort of these fish hooks come down from the sky and they've got all kinds of bait on them. So the first hook is video games. And then you're a little older, down comes incredible porn.

In any case, the way to understand what's happening to boys I've come to see really more since writing the book is imagine your boy is out there in the world and these sort of these fish hooks come down from the sky and they've got all kinds of bait on them. So the first hook is video games. And then you're a little older, down comes incredible porn.

And so, again, you know, some boys can just enjoy it with no problem. But again, you find usually between 5% and 15% for each of these get addicted. They have a behavioral addiction. And then they get a little older. They find ways to gamble even before they're 18. And that's all set up to catch boys. You got the crypto investing. You got stock investing. All of it is gamified for boys.

And so, again, you know, some boys can just enjoy it with no problem. But again, you find usually between 5% and 15% for each of these get addicted. They have a behavioral addiction. And then they get a little older. They find ways to gamble even before they're 18. And that's all set up to catch boys. You got the crypto investing. You got stock investing. All of it is gamified for boys.

Oh, and you got the vaping and the marijuana pens and all of that. And so imagine a boy whose day is filled mostly with video games, porn, watching TikTok and YouTube videos, especially the very short videos. And for the boys, their feeds often have a lot of violence.

Oh, and you got the vaping and the marijuana pens and all of that. And so imagine a boy whose day is filled mostly with video games, porn, watching TikTok and YouTube videos, especially the very short videos. And for the boys, their feeds often have a lot of violence.

They often have funny videos of people falling out a window, like 10 stories and dying, or being run over by a car, things like that. And so imagine if that's what your boy does for half the day. His brain, his dopamine system, the reward motivation pathways, respond by dampening down so that they require more stimulation just to be normal.

They often have funny videos of people falling out a window, like 10 stories and dying, or being run over by a car, things like that. And so imagine if that's what your boy does for half the day. His brain, his dopamine system, the reward motivation pathways, respond by dampening down so that they require more stimulation just to be normal.

Which is why if your son is playing a lot of video games and you take him away, if he becomes anxious and irritable and possibly even violent, that's a definite sign of dopamine change, that your boy's brain has been changed. Now, it'll change back. But what happens if boys are doing this from the age of 5 through 18? Those might be permanent. We don't know.

Which is why if your son is playing a lot of video games and you take him away, if he becomes anxious and irritable and possibly even violent, that's a definite sign of dopamine change, that your boy's brain has been changed. Now, it'll change back. But what happens if boys are doing this from the age of 5 through 18? Those might be permanent. We don't know.

But there's a good reason to think that if you go through puberty with these distortions of your dopamine system, that it could well change the way you are for the rest of your life. And the way you'd see it is that everything off of the screen is more boring. Right. So your boy comes into class. Now, half of the school day or third of the school day is on a screen nowadays, which is horrible.

But there's a good reason to think that if you go through puberty with these distortions of your dopamine system, that it could well change the way you are for the rest of your life. And the way you'd see it is that everything off of the screen is more boring. Right. So your boy comes into class. Now, half of the school day or third of the school day is on a screen nowadays, which is horrible.

And that's a COVID thing. But what we're finding is that kids are having a lot of trouble paying attention to anything that's not on the screen. And it's because their brains have been gamified and the dopamine circuits have been changed.

And that's a COVID thing. But what we're finding is that kids are having a lot of trouble paying attention to anything that's not on the screen. And it's because their brains have been gamified and the dopamine circuits have been changed.

Yeah. That's right.

Yeah. That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just give us your soul. Exactly. Exactly.

Just give us your soul. Exactly. Exactly.