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We are too close to the event to be able to separate perceived beliefs from facts. Only two centuries ago, people feared they might explode if trains exceeded 60 mph. Within my lifetime, there was a belief, among some, that humans could not live in outer space; launching dogs and monkeys into orbit dispelled that belief. I remember the first desktop computers creating anxiety in the workforce. Personal observations of any rapid evolutionary occurrence can be unsettling.
I don't see the point of helping push the use of social media controlled by tech oligarchs. Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and now Larry Elison have control on all the social media western kids are exposed to. It's a war I would never bet my career waging in favir of these 3 billionaires.
It is so great and important that you are tackling Haidt and the rest of the scapegoaters spreading anxiety among parents, and worse. Do you know Mike Males, who has been fighting this fight for years? here is title of a recent Substack: " Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show. Officials’ and professionals’ dismissals and distortions of the worst menaces to teenagers’ mental and physical health are inexcusable."
We are too close to the event to be able to separate perceived beliefs from facts. Only two centuries ago, people feared they might explode if trains exceeded 60 mph. Within my lifetime, there was a belief, among some, that humans could not live in outer space; launching dogs and monkeys into orbit dispelled that belief. I remember the first desktop computers creating anxiety in the workforce. Personal observations of any rapid evolutionary occurrence can be unsettling.
I don't see the point of helping push the use of social media controlled by tech oligarchs. Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and now Larry Elison have control on all the social media western kids are exposed to. It's a war I would never bet my career waging in favir of these 3 billionaires.
It is so great and important that you are tackling Haidt and the rest of the scapegoaters spreading anxiety among parents, and worse. Do you know Mike Males, who has been fighting this fight for years? here is title of a recent Substack: " Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show. Officials’ and professionals’ dismissals and distortions of the worst menaces to teenagers’ mental and physical health are inexcusable."
MIKE MALES. is on Substack.