How the Internet Ruins Young People - Freya India
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Why are young people struggling in today's digital age?
Nearly half of Gen Z adults wish social media was never invented, which you don't really get with any other invention. Other women were relentlessly sold products and procedures, but we are the product.
How does the internet shape young people's identity and self-worth?
This is happening from maybe age 12. Companies like Facebook will even track if a user uses a word like worthless or insecure and then send them an ad.
When I was reading the book, I was thinking the pandemic must have a significant part to play in all this.
It must do. Teenagers were already social distancing before the pandemic.
What role does social media play in loneliness and anxiety?
So you have online communities, you have online porn, you have online therapy, you have online lectures, online delivery services. You just don't have to look a human in the eye at all.
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How is real-world community collapsing in the digital era?
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What is the impact of hyper-individualism on youth culture?
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Priya India, welcome back to Trigonometry.
Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be back.
Oh, it's great to have you. Listen, when we first interviewed you, it was very clear that you were a very talented writer, but you were still, I think, working part-time in a cafe.
Why do young people feel lost and directionless today?
And since that time, your sub-stacks exploded. You've written this great book, which I'm sure will be a big success. You're on all the big shows now. And I think it's because the message that you are delivering and the things that you're talking about is actually something that the entire world is now concerned about. You know, what have you made of the journey you've had so far, if nothing else?
Yeah, I mean, I think when you asked me to come on, I was literally cleaning toilets in the cafe. So it's very meaningful to be back.
What are the problems with online activism and outrage culture?
I think that Jonathan Haidt obviously has accelerated this conversation and he's given the foundation for a lot of the stats in the book. But I kind of think of it, when I first came on, I was talking about the first part of a story, which was a generation falling apart. And that's what psychologists like Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge have all been talking about, which is the rise in anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide among Gen Z. But the book is really the second part of the story, which is a generation being remade. So what we were turned into. And I actually think that young women have turned from people into products and that the reason we're unhappy is because we're no longer human or at least treating ourselves as human.
Do you think that part of it is We've just got more powerful technology now. Women have always been treated as a product by the people who could sell them stuff and profit from their insecurities, from their natural tendencies to feel certain ways about their looks and stuff like that. And now we're just in a place where the technology is so much more powerful.
Yeah, so the book is all age-old anxieties that every generation of women has felt.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are young people struggling in today's digital age?
0:02–0:14
2
How does the internet shape young people's identity and self-worth?
0:14–0:36
3
What role does social media play in loneliness and anxiety?
0:36–1:14
4
How is real-world community collapsing in the digital era?
1:14–1:52
5
What is the impact of hyper-individualism on youth culture?
1:52–2:47
6
Why do young people feel lost and directionless today?
2:47–3:15
7
What are the problems with online activism and outrage culture?
3:15–5:16
8
What advice does Freya India have for parents and educators?
5:16–1:27:09
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