Jon Haidt
Social psychologist at NYU Stern, author of The Righteous Mind, The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation. He writes at After Babel.
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Their wordsTo change course in democratic nations will require a major change in public opinion as a signal to political leaders that the current course is not acceptable.
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Their wordsLike any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.
↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.
↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI cannot support any law that includes a “parental consent” exception—it defeats the central purpose of the law by dropping parents and children straight back into the same collective-action trap
↗Why the World Is Drawing a Line on Social Media for Kidsafterbabel.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsParents want this. They know social media can harm their children, yet many feel trapped because everyone else’s kids are already online.
↗Australia's New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood Firstafterbabel.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe goal is not perfect enforcement. Some kids will still find workarounds. The goal is to shift the environment so children are not pressured into digital spaces they don’t want, simply to avoid being left out.
↗Australia's New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood Firstafterbabel.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Spirituality is a real part of human nature and central to flourishing, whether or not God exists.
Their wordsI approach spirituality as a social scientist who believes that whether or not God exists, spirituality is a deep part of human nature, shaped by natural selection and cultural evolution, and central to human flourishing and self-transcendence.
↗The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut as soon as Gen Z entered the dataset, around 2013, meaninglessness surged.
↗The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsSo many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.
↗The Devil's Plan to Ruin the Next Generationafterbabel.com 3rd of 3 in this piece