Yes, It Really, Really Is the Phones
The phone-based life produces spiritual degradation, not just in adolescents, but in all of us.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting.
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
The consequences are severe. This represents an abdication of mentorship that parents owe their children and that kids desperately need. We all sign up for this task when we bring children into the world. We must raise them, like it or not. It’s the unquittable job. Sure, some deadbeat parents have always checked out in ways that horrify mainstream... See more