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Yes, read the other talking points this applause cow for conservative viewpoints is peddling. It has nothing to do with thinking for himself and everything with jumping the bandwagon.
> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory…
“Cogito ergo est”
> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory…
I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance. Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression. Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do? Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!
No one cares about middle aged people. They are also depressed
No one is arguing that depression is great for older people or for men, just because they are taking a focused look on what might cause a sharp rise in the rate of depression of young females.
In the past, young people were unable to escape this while at school, but once the school day was over they at least had a reprieve until the next school day.
With social media, there is no longer any down time. You are vulnerable to harassment all the time.
I think there is a reason that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sundar Pichai, and others limited screen time for their own kids.
If the sharp rise since 2012 in female teenage depression in USA is caused by social media. Why isn't the same sharp rise seen in Europe, where female teenagers also use social media?
I was about to just make that joke, then realized that actually social media might be worse than alcohol…
> A final reason I didn’t want to believe in the social media hypothesis was that I’d much rather blame wokeness … it’s annoying to me that intellectuals won’t even consider the possibility that radical new ideas about race and sex might be to blame, and the fact that the most liberal demographics, that is women and LGBT adolescents, are having the most mental problems indicates that there is something to the theory…
I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance. Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression. Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do? Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!
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Yes, read the other talking points this applause cow for conservative viewpoints is peddling. It has nothing to do with thinking for himself and everything with jumping the bandwagon.
I can see why people would find him grating though.
If the sharp rise since 2012 in female teenage depression in USA is caused by social media. Why isn't the same sharp rise seen in Europe, where female teenagers also use social media?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00431-021-04240-7