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The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
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Shlomo Silber, who ran a coworking space called Bond Collective—
Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
“This is far as I go from my house because there’s so much negativity, drugs and violence,” said Williamson, while also lamenting the shift from police officers who walked a beat to ones he said are “being bullies instead of peace officers. We scared to talk to the cops today because we don’t know what state of mind they’re in. So we can get somebo
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