Thomas Murphy
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We don't do those things at the rate that we used to.
Sure.
You know what the average screen time is for an American teen today?
seven to nine and a half hours in a two-dimensional world, disembodied, asynchronously.
Scary stuff, man.
I want to create more sweethearts and heroes in our young people.
They are the solution.
We say our kids are the future.
That's a lie.
They're not the future.
They're our present.
And just to reach back into a bit of the conversation, you know, that principal I was messaging this morning about the book study he's doing.
I see kids waking up.
This is the truth.
I sit with 11th and 12th graders that say, I'm not wearing makeup.
A Gen X woman wouldn't go out the house without makeup on.
But I see young people saying, I'm done with it.
It was torture.
It was hell.
Middle school, dealing with these phones, this technology.