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A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

“With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.” —Shannon Carlin, ,i>TIME, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Hisides Godt og Ondt
  • The Birth of Tragedy
  • The Case of Wagner
  • The Dawn of Day
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Ecce Homo
  • Den Muntre Vitenskapen
  • Human, All Too Human
  • On the Genealogy of Morality
  • Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
  • Twilight of the Idols
  • The Antichrist
  • Untimely Meditations
  • The Will to Power

Paul Virilio

  • Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology. New York: Semiotext(e), 1977 [1986]
  • War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. London: Verso, 1989.
  • Popular Defense and Ecological Struggles. New York: Semiotext(e), 1990.
  • The Aesthetics of Disappearance. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991.
  • Lost Dimension. New York: Semiotext(e), 1991.
  • Atom Egoyan. Paris: Dis Voir, 1994.
  • The Vision Machine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
  • Bunker Archaeology. New York: Princeton University Press, 1994.
  • The Art of the Motor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
  • Open Sky. London: Verso, 1997.
  • Pure War. New York: Semiotext(e), 1997.
  • Politics of the Very Worst. New York: Semiotext(e), 1999.
  • Polar Inertia. London: Sage, 1999.
  • A Landscape of Events. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
  • The Information Bomb. London: Verso, 2000.
  • Strategy of Deception. London: Verso, 2000.
  • Virilio Live: Selected Interviews. Edited by John Armitage. London: Sage, 2001.
  • Ground Zero. London: Verso, 2002.
  • Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light. London: Continuum, 2002.
  • Crepuscular Dawn. New York: Semiotext(e), 2002.
  • Art and Fear. London: Continuum, 2003. ( originally published in 2000 by Editions Galilee under the title La Procedure Silence, meaning «The Silence Trial». )
  • Unknown Quantity. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
  • City of Panic. Oxford: Berg, 2005.
  • The Accident of Art. (with Sylvère Lotringer) New York: Semiotext(e), 2005.
  • Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy. London: Continuum, 2005.
  • Art as Far as the Eye Can See. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2007.
  • The Original Accident. Cambridge: Polity, 2007
  • Grey Ecology. New York/Dresden: Atropos Press, 2009.
  • The Great Accelerator. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.
  • The University of Disaster. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.
  • The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject. Cambridge: Polity, 2010.
  • A Winter’s Journey : Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch. The French list. Seagull Books, 2011.
  • The Administration of Fear. New York: Semiotext(e), 2012.

Jean Baudrillard

  • The System of Objects
  • The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
  • For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
  • The Mirror of Production
  • Symbolic Exchange and Death
  • Forget Foucault
  • Seduction
  • Simulacra and Simulation
  • In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
  • Fatal Strategies
  • Simulations
  • America
  • Cool Memories 1980–1985
  • The Ecstasy of Communication
  • The Transparency of Evil
  • The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
  • The Illusion of the End
  • The Perfect Crime
  • Cool Memories II 1987–1990
  • Fragments: Cool Memories III 1990–1995
  • Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit
  • Impossible Exchange
  • Passwords
  • The Singular Objects of Architecture
  • The Vital Illusion
  • The Spirit of Terrorism And Requiem for the Twin Towers
  • Fragments (Interviews with François L’Yvonnet)
  • Cool Memories IV 1995–2000
  • The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
  • The Conspiracy of Art
  • Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie (1967–1978)
  • Cool Memories V 2000–2004
  • Exiles from Dialogue
  • Radical Alterity
  • Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
  • Carnival and Cannibal, or the Play of Global Antagonisms
  • The Agony of Power
  • Telemorphosis
  • Screened Out
  • The Divine Left: A Chronicle of the Years 1977–1984

Filosofi

“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false.”


― Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative

Økonomi

“The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her uniquely inclusive economic institutions. These in turn were built on foundations laid by the inclusive political institutions brought about by the Glorious Revolution. It was the Glorious Revolution that strengthened and rationalized property rights, improved financial markets, undermined state-sanctioned monopolies in foreign trade, and removed the barriers to the expansion of industry. It was the Glorious Revolution that made the political system open and responsive to the economic needs and aspirations of society. These inclusive economic institutions gave men of talent and vision such as James Watt the opportunity and incentive to develop their skills and ideas and influence the system in ways that benefited them and the nation. Naturally these men, once they had become successful, had the same urges as any other person. They wanted to block others from entering their businesses and competing against them and feared the process of creative destruction that might put them out of business, as they had previously bankrupted others.”


― Daron Acemoğlu; Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Religion

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former – although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Politikk

“Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export…. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea — in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ”


― Thomas Sowell

Arbeid

So perhaps the time is ripe for reconsideration of an ideal that has fallen out of favor: manual competence, and the stance it entails toward the built, material world. Neither as workers nor as consumers are we much called upon to exercise such competence, most of us anyway, and merely to recommend its cultivation is to risk the scorn of those who take themselves to be the most hard-headed: the hard-headed economist will point out the opportunity costs of making what can be bought, and the hard-headed educator will say that it is irresponsible to educate the young for the trades, which are somehow identified as the jobs of the past. But we might pause to consider just how hard-headed these presumptions are, and whether they don’t, on the contrary, issue from a peculiar sort of idealism, one that insistently steers young people toward the most ghostly kinds of work.

― Matthew B. Crawford