Sebastian Junger
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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I mean, when you start, if you're depressed and you start asking what is life for anyway, like you're at risk of suicide.
Yeah, those are all stressors on our society and our connectedness.
But being rendered obsolete, that's next level.
That's still in the future.
And we'll see if it happens, right?
I mean, I hope it doesn't in some ways.
But what can we do?
Well, I would say...
First of all, the smartphone is a dangerous object, right?
Psychologically dangerous, particularly for young people.
I mean, the statistic, Jonathan Haidt, I'm sure you- Who was sitting at this very table last time we were here.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, I don't need to run through his brilliant arguments, but I think it's pretty much accepted.
And people talk about social media in terms of addiction.
They say, oh, I went cold turkey.
I didn't look at my phone.
I mean, they talk about it like addiction.
So let's just say it's an addiction, right?
So I think the first thing we need to do is protect the children and the young people from the effects of this.
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