What Jon Haidt thinks about America

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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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   Our readingThe share of American teenagers who say that life often feels meaningless surged as Gen Z entered adolescence.

   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