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Counterpoint: The iPhone saved me. Yes, it’s also a source of the problem compounding, but when dealing with people was absolutely unbearable (especially durin
by laurent92 5y ago
Counterpoint: The iPhone saved me.
Yes, it’s also a source of the problem compounding, but when dealing with people was absolutely unbearable (especially during lockdown where everyone had rules for others), being able to override all of those suicidal/psychopathic/rage thoughts with a tasteless podcast/youtube video has proven successful. In another generation I would gave gotten myself drunk to sleep, at least I can binge-watch until sleep.
Of course phone addiction is here a signal correlated with things going extremely bad, but plays various roles in that.
- ryandrake 5y agoA lot has changed from when I was a kid, but one thing I noticed hasn't: teachers (and other education system "contributors") are still very quick and eager to sort kids into buckets. Gifted, lazy, ESL, troublemaker, creative, well-behaved-but-dumb, etc. and once your kid is in a bucket, good luck getting them out. I couldn't imagine the hopelessness of being a kid where all the authority figures around you just assessed one day you were headed for failure and treated you that way forever, but it's standard at school. In my day, it was blatant: we were actually on numerically assigned tracks, 1 to 6, where 1 was "college bound," 6 was "prison bound," and the numbers in between were on a step-function spectrum between those two extremes. And people rarely if ever changed tracks.
- sjg007 5y agoYeah that's just wrong and horrible. We know most kids love to learn and you see that from infancy to kindergarten. That's innate. I don't think we spend enough time teaching behavioral and emotional regulation skills which is the core skill you need to strengthen throughout life.