Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- NYU professor Jonathan Haidt argued that technology is harming the social development and mental health of children. He was interviewed by Harvard University Center for Digital Thriving co-director and author Emily Weinstein.
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The problem may be that it's too late, probably. It would take a serious shift in cultural conditions to eliminate smartphone use and social media from children's lives. There's a mindfulness workbook called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels that might be a good start.
All it will take is for one upcoming generation to see it as their parents' thing....old school...lame...which it is.
Social media is so deeply infused in our lives and educational system. It will take a shift of high magnitude to eliminate phones in schools. In my opinion, our congressional leaders should’ve stepped in long ago. Unfortunately, the train has left the station and is running a million miles per hour down the track.
For example, as a college professors, we are being primed and encouraged by administration to integrate students’ iPhones in class as a learning tool. However, it is impossible, as students’ attention is easily and quickly hijacked by their social media and incoming texts. Faculty are raging about this issue, which has been compounded by the use of artificial intelligence to cheat. Many of us have given up in utter frustration as our concerns fall on administrations deaf ears …..
@@Rollins-ek3li Social media is not infused at all with our lives..zero. Its only addicts who say that "Alcohol is so infused with our lives I don't know how we'd gety along with it" . Same thing. Many people have no phones, no accounts, they are doing jut fine.
@@stoneneils If social media is not so tightly woven into our culture, then why are we having this exchange, on UA-cam, a social media site. Why don’t we just write letters and be happy with getting a PenPal ? Why don’t we tell our employers we will not work from a computer or use a cell phone ? Why don’t we launch a campaign to have college students banned from using a computer and force them to go to the library to read books ? Why ? Because technology has been injected into everything ….
Well the thing is that we have never had a society of truly active citizen. What I mean by active, is acting upon what is essential. What is essential, is providing truth. We could make encounter groups great again. They were actually very popular after the Vietnam war, common people came together in facilitated talks and learned about themselves and others, group dynamics too..
Saying that we are too late is true IF we do not realize that the change won't happen from the top-down. This is very likely to happen indeed if we are not brought back to our senses. We cant wait for it to happen either.
It's about you and me, the common people will do the cultural change. Talk to your neighbor, volunteer, participate in grassroot movements, or just share important topics in social media even that could spark someone's interest.
Right now, our use of language is very superficial. We acknowledge the issues of society but don't really know what to do about it other than complain. I believe we have lost the art of dialogue, where each individual is serious enough to suspend one's assumptions in order to come about genuine understanding. One that involves insight or a kind of Heureka moment. Insight changes lives. 'Meditation' can bring us back to our senses, so that we have the capacity'/spaciousness required for this.
"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions."
In communication and in our own enquiry about ourselves and life, we are often satisfied with mere intellectual and verbal understanding about things. But that won't bring us integrity.
We're very analytical people. We talk about life in concepts and ideas, and do not see the real meaning behind them. Most of our so-called deep conversations do not touch our 'core of being' in the sense that our daily life's action would be radically and positively changed.
It's also not so much about what you do, but about who you are when everything is stripped away and off of you. You learn a great deal when you learn how to listen.
We should know that culture is about shared meaning. And as right now, do we really even have a culture? We know government won't provide meaning, as their interest is mainly about capital.
For further enquiry, I suggest looking up Carl Rogers book "On Encounter Group's" and "Bohm Dialogue". I believe it isn't utopistic to imagine a kind of society where public sit-ins are popularized. Happened in ancient Greece anyway. There are tangeable ways to make this happen. You can start to practice dialogue in your household right now, or even with yourself.
And like you mentioned, 'mindfulness' and meditation is something we ought to know too in order to become more sensitive to our 'inner life's such as being aware of the assumptions we make during a dialogue.
As without order in life, what do we have? Sitting in samadhi is like rebooting our brain - as if throwing away useless programs by connecting to heart. I'm talking in metaphors, but the benefits of meditation and how it impacts the brain are well known in thousands of research studies.
I saw Margaret Hoover interview this gentleman a few hours ago and couldn't agree with his observations and conclusions more.
This was such an eye-opening interview! The way Jonathan Haidt lays out the timeline of social media and its impact on mental health is truly alarming. It's one thing to have these concerns, but the data really drives the point home. What are your thoughts on finding a balance - are there ways to mitigate these negative impacts without completely unplugging?
Millenials didn't have smart phones before age 16 and no social media before age 16 years. Aren't they mentally distressed with anxiety, depression, identity crisis etc?Whilst limiting access to the technology would have many benefits, it looks like the author of this book is just riding a popular wave.
The interviewer is correct, encouraging millenials, young adults and kids to build good strong, trusting, relationships with their parents, grand-parents, relatives and other older adult role models is the way to go. Put an end to the negativity about these important, loving, caring people in their lives.
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I don’t think it’s about building trusting relationships with our families. Millennials still grew up outside, without smart phones, around family etc. I believe it has a lot to do with millennials don’t get breaks. We were raised when mental health was still a very touchy subject. But the older generation checked out. Grandparents aren’t there anymore. They don’t take kids for date nights, weekends away etc. they have this “I raised my kids already” mentality. But if their parents (millennials grandparents) did that while our parents were raising us… they would be just as anxious. There’s no village anymore. Mental health is such a huge deal. And our parents had that mental health and physical break without even realizing it. As millennials most of us have to beg for our parents to be present in our and our children’s lives.
"super-interesting" ; "granular"