The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
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The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood
society’s ability to meet people’s psychological and psycho-social needs appears to have declined. There has been a rise of individualism.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
When it was carried into schools in the early 2010s, on smartphones in students’ pockets, it quickly changed the culture for everyone. (Communication networks rapidly become more powerful as they grow.[16]) Students talked to each other less between classes, at recess, and at lunch, because they began to spend much of that time checking their phone
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anyone who wants to understand how the most rapid rewiring of human relationships and consciousness in human history has made it harder for all of us to think, focus, forget ourselves enough to care about others, and build close relationships.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Many people on Twitter/X shared images from local parks with “no ball throwing” and other no-loitering-esque signs actively deterring children and teens from enjoying the space. People have every right to be angry about these cases, that there are few places to simply be. But even these situations can be traced in part to our phone-centric culture.... See more