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To be fair, both parents are expected to work while wages have not kept up. Work demands more than ever from you with less upside than ever before. My point is that parents are stretched thin.
Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable
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#12Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"... The good excuse to push for population censorship and control. The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,... Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were…
The demarcation line here is 2012 though, and I wouldn't say material wise things made a sudden shift between 2008 and 2015. Arguably things were worse back then with the GFC while this decade has seen incredible returns for investors.
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#14Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"... The good excuse to push for population censorship and control. The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,... Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were…
There is a major political party in the US wanting to dismantle education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Well the education system certainly needs attention and a refactoring. I don't think anyone can dispute that. The details of what the end goal looks like vary wildly based on who you talk to.
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#15My opinion is that it’s just partisan gerrymandering creating safe districts is pushing our politics towards the extremes as both parties run far left and far right candidates in their safe district primary. It gives us candidates out of touch with the overall electorate and unable to compromise.
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#16Again, the usual scarecrow of "internet is corrupting our kids and our minds"... The good excuse to push for population censorship and control. The truth is that the problem is coming from the social society that we prefer to ignore: education collapsing, government and political world having arms wide open to dictatorship when it benefits to them,... Just to remember that a few decades ago, same kind of persons were…
There is a major political party in the US wanting to dismantle education https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
Disgusting and scary as it is, this is in no way part of the mainstream GOP
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#18Ungovernable, a phrase that is trending:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=u...
The interviewer's statement in questions makes me think they have a hobbyhorse to ride.
The possibility of arriving at a governing consensus through negotiation and compromise is being shattered by a cacophony of niche propagandists egging on their own siloed tribe of the faithful to engage in an endless partisan battle.
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Revealing too much about yourself when you call kids an "it"
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#20The 2015+ timeline definitely tracks with my wife's anecdotal experience. She's been working in pediatrics (exclusively at Children's Hospitals) since 2003 and the amount of kids she sees with self harm or suicide attempts has grown so much in the recent years.
I gave private math lessons for more than two decades.
I can't speak about self harm, but them kids got in couple of years around a decade ago insanely unable to focus. They were consistently distracted.
Adults who use lots of internet in general (regardless of socials) are the same. Applies to my girlfriend (she changed a lot since she started working behind a computer) and I have to admit to myself (which is why I block most of the internet during working hours).
It's insane how your brain gets rewired by doomscrolling into essentially dopamine seeking.