The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

world. Children need a great deal of free play to thrive. It’s an imperative that’s evident across all mammal species.

The first is that they are not in denial.

they want to bring about systemic change to create a more just and caring world,

adept at organizing to do so

The Righteous Mind, lays out my own research on the evolved psychological

cognitive distortions such as catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, and emotional reasoning,

cognitive distortions

The 2008 global financial crisis did not cause this multinational increase in the 2010s, nor did American school shootings or American politics.

6 questions? does this muster the alienation constru t?

decline in teen mental health is the sudden and massive change in the technology that teens were using to connect with each other.[60]

Wouldnt alienated youth i teract less? This is a Time mag level of analysis

country.

This is an assertio

illness?

Illness or condition?

The evolutionary race to learn the most made

This is a cultural assertion

“play requires suppression of the drive to dominate and enables the formation of long-lasting cooperative bonds.”[7]

Poor Don Trump

Play with some degree of physical risk is essential because it teaches children how to look after themselves

Physical risk play

social labor

Social labor

conformity attraction. When American children move from elementary

Conformityh attractgion

primates are based on dominance—the

Poor Donny

develop a mentoring relationship that would help them succeed in their real-world communities.

Missing mentoring

experiences that arrive in no particular order.

Except the ones they choose+ the algorthim chooses for them

psychological immune system[12]—the ability of a child to handle, process, and get past frustrations, minor accidents, teasing, exclusion, perceived injustices, and normal conflicts without falling prey to hours or days of inner turmoil.

Grit

Leif Kennair wrote in 2010, thrilling experiences have anti-phobic effects.[15]

Anti phobic effe cts in thrill seeking

the balance of joy and fear that she was ready for at that moment. By repeatedly

(such as climbing trees or playground structures), high speed (such as swinging, or going down fast slides), dangerous tools (such as hammers and drills), dangerous elements (such as experimenting with fire), rough-and-tumble play (such as wrestling), and disappearing (hiding, wandering away, potentially getting lost or separated).

Play categories

touch, hug, and wrestle.

large-scale public shaming

Shaming as the new disruptor psychologically. But Brene Brown was already exposing it as the base of the human experience

by the 2010s many working-class parents had moved toward concerted cultivation parenting, including a high level of protection from risk.[37]

admissions.

The study suggested it. but did not test for it.

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Stay away from other people’s children. Don’t talk to them; don’t discipline them if they are misbehaving; don’t get involved. But when adults step away and stop helping each other to raise children, parents find themselves on their own. Parenting becomes harder, more fear-ridden, and more time consuming, especially for women, as we saw in figure 3.8. Furedi offered an important qualification

Parenting alone

600%

From what? .2?

I have a right not to be “triggered.”

Triggered

Subsequent brain development, therefore, is not about overall growth but about the selective pruning of neurons and synapses,

Steinberg notes that adolescence is not necessarily an especially stressful time. Rather, it is a time when the brain is more vulnerable to the effects of sustained stressors,

Stress and vulnerability

need a wide variety of social experiences to develop into flexible and socially skilled adults.

The scurvy example

The rapid deterioration of mental health, however, did not begin until the early 2010s

“alone together.”) Are

communities require rituals to signify shifts in people’s status.

(randomized controlled trials).

Randomized controlled trials

contributing to an escalating trend of self-identifying with the disorder.

DID

They are forced to spend more of their virtual lives in defend mode, which may be part of the reason that their anxiety levels went up more sharply in the early 2010s.

Defensiveness and anxiety

the progress that many societies have made to reduce sexual violence and harassment in the real world is being counteracted by the facilitation of harassment and exploitation by companies that put profits above the privacy and safety of their users.

MGTOW—Men Going Their Own Way, without women).

No women men

2015, many boys found themselves exposed to a level of stimulation and attention extraction that had been unimaginable just 15 years earlier.

7% of adolescent boys can be classified as having “internet gaming disorder.”

impose a large opportunity cost; they take up an enormous amount of time.

Unlike free play in the real world, most video games give no practice in the skills of self-governance.

the anti-phobic benefits of risky

Anti-phobic effect of risky play

“friendship recession”

How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion.[1]

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act of moral beauty.

Act of moral beauty