Book Notes: Anxious Generation
Some connection between the social media companies and the tobacco, vape and even the oil industry. Which harm children, but still have a propaganda around it.
Talks about the lack of or the slow decline of play children have in their childhood and how play Becoming more used to just sitting on the computer and this is so much true for me myself
Another point is made on the lack of commitment required in virtual worlds. You physically talk to someone and there was a high bar for entry and exit and that made you more amiable and like you develop better relationship skills. Whereas in the virtual world, you don’t even need to use your own name and you can easily block someone and like living in such a world where you can easily cut off connections It’s very different from how the real world is.
If your body was turned over to just anyone, you would doubtless take exception. Why aren’t you ashamed that you have made your mind vulnerable to anyone who happens to criticize you so that it automatically becomes confused and upset.
Epictetus
Most parents don’t want their children to have a phone-based childhood, but somehow the world has reconfigured itself so that any parent who resists is condemning their child to social isolation.
Makes a counterpoint to the argument that isn’t Gen Z right to be anxious and depressed because 21st century is Having so many disasters, financial crisis, 9–11, covid and whatnot. But it said that if you actually map the data of those events to the increase in Depression rates, there is not a strong correlation
Also the gender bias that it affected teenage girls more than teenage boys is not explainable by economic events.
Also they say the generation which grows up under a stronger political cause like a war, actually shows higher degrees of cooperation and trust
Forever elsewhere
Children’s brains grow to 90% of full size by age 5 but then take a long time to configure themselves, this is slow-growth for cultural learning
Animals are either designed to be in defend mode or discover mode, based on where they are in the food chain. Those in the discover mode are happier
Online world is much more dangerous, because small mistakes can bring enormous costs, like vitality, large scale public humiliation
The cost of a thing is the amount of life required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Kurt Voneger book mentioned Harrison Bergeron, is set in a modern America, where by constitutional amendment, nobody is allowed to be smarter, better looking or physically more capable then anyone else, so if someone has a higher IQ, they have an earpiece, just interrupting them every 20 secs to drop their IQ lol
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words, Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a jet ski
As jobs involve lesser physical skill and more people skill, boys are being left behind?
Thoda went red pill lol
Also says that boys used to learn a lot from risky behaviours, which are being reduced?
Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get. The measure you give will be the measure you get.
