Michael Smerconish sits down with Hillary Clinton on CNN to discuss her new book Something Lost, Something Gained, where she shares personal reflections on her life, her fight for democracy, and the urgent need for Americans to come together and bridge political divides.
Radio host Charlamagne tha God explains a passage in his new book “Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks” that emphasizes the importance for youth to disconnect from social media and get outside to connect with friends, nature, and themselves.
People “are seeing their male friends and loved ones struggle, look for direction and not know where to find it,” says the Washington Post’s Christine Emba. Adds Scott Galloway, “Sex and companionship are huge motivators and guardrails for young men.”
“Anxiety is the belief you can’t handle something,” says Lenore Skenazy, President of Let Grow. And American kids are growing up in a culture that “has told their parents to worry about everything, ….so parents are always supposed to be with their kids, and that’s what’s new. And that seems to be driving kids crazy.”
The reason America’s young men are adrift, says NYU Professor Scott Galloway, is economic: “The happiest, most prosperous people in America are middle-class families. We have made a concerted decision to punch it in the gut and make it harder for that type of family formation.”
Scott Galloway says America is “seeing one of the biggest shifts in asset classes of the last 30, 40 years, from commercial real estate to residential.” But, he warns, “if you are young and single, get into the office. There’s a function of relationships.”
The decline of the middle class has made America “a horror movie, and the call is coming from inside of the house,” says NYU Professor of Marketing Scott Galloway. But “these are problems of our own making, and we can unmake them.”
Enrollment at U.S. colleges is now 60-40 female – the largest gender gap in our history. NYU Professor Scott Galloway says this means we are producing too many of ‘the most dangerous person in the world: a broke and alone male.’
‘Capital has been kicking the crap out of labor for the last 30 years,’ says NYU Professor Scott Galloway, and governors ending unemployment benefits just means ‘more people living in their cars.’
Because of COVID-19, most of America’s colleges are going online this fall – but charging the same tuition. And families are fighting for refunds. Will this hasten a rethink of higher education?
Multiple studies have proven that “the more hours a day a teen spends on social media, the more likely it is that they’re going to be depressed,” says iGen author Jean Twenge. But social media CEOs deny it “because this is their business. This is how they make money.”
“Gen X is unfortunately just as polarized as the [earlier] generations,” says Psychiatrist Jean Twenge. But young Republicans are “fairly progressive [on] a lot of social issues…so there may be less polarization on some of those issues as time goes on.”
The “link between social media use and depression is larger for children and younger teens,” says Psychologist Jean Twenge. So to legislators proposing bans for those under 13, she suggests, “How about 16? Let’s get social media out of middle schools. That is such a difficult time for kids already.”
Seattle Public Schools are suing big tech, alleging social media platforms “intentionally contributed to the youth mental health crisis.” Psychology Professor Jean Twenge, author of “iGen,” says evidence now suggests “it’s not just correlation, that it is causation.”
Will America’s kids ever recover from the trauma of living through these past few years? A recent Surgeon General’s report found that during the pandemic, depression and anxiety among young people doubled.
Social media creates ‘An unrealistic portrait of [people’s] lives,’ says iGen author Jean Twenge; Wall Street Journal technology reporter Jeff Horwitz says Facebook was ‘very aware’ its products could have harmful effects on users but hasn’t done anything to fix it.
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