Like, no matter the justification of why people are spending 10+ hours on their phones and having their brains air fried by short form video content and social media apps, it’s still bad. From being bad for your thinking skills to anxiety and depression. Spending less time on your phone is good.

You don’t have to give a personal testimony about your reading habits and literacy. The problem is that Americans in general are becoming less literate and literacy is one of the things tied to not just a happier intellectual life but also to one’s potential of moving up the economic ladder.

Many times personal experience is great and adds context to a problem, but it can also just distract and derail into egotism.