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Joseph Hollinger
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Dog lover, lawyer, engineer, recovering political junkie
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Is now the right time to start crowdsourcing money to restore the rose garden?
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Can someone explain how this makes sense?
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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The @sivav.bsky.social piece on phones and youth well being is so, so good, and this is the crux of it. I’m no fan of phones *inside classrooms*, but shoving the blame for youth anguish onto phones lets adults skate on the moral injury we inflict on our kids.
If we want to make Americans less reliant on smartphones, we have to address the problems of misery among all Americans. Parental stress reflects on children and young adults, who often witness all the ugly consequences of a cruel society and economy. Direct stresses on youth, enhanced by diminishing promises of a flourishing future, a sense of planetary demise, tightening social restrictions, educational failure, and the rise of public cruelty in real life and social media, demand a much more comprehensive—and political—approach than Haidt can offer with his laser-focus on phones. The danger of emphasizing a single cause for such a widespread and deadly problem is that there is a good chance we would fail to address the range of the real contributing factors.
January 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM