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I am completely convinced that international violence does not now, nor has it ever, caused much depression in US-based 12-year-old girls. Further, I find the n
by xbar 4y ago
I am completely convinced that international violence does not now, nor has it ever, caused much depression in US-based 12-year-old girls. Further, I find the notion that it is was an increasing trend from 2010 to 2022 compared with 2001 to 2010 is maximally revisionist.
Same for political polarization (sidebar: the notion that political polarization is an "other...factor" outside of social media seems poorly considered.)
- anigbrowl 4y agoYou seem bent on having an argument. I think the post-9/11 atmosphere of the US being at war and the polarization that semi-independently ramped up over the same period are both important background factors, which themselves were amplified by social media and network interconnectivity. Public discourse has become more violent and confrontational over that time vs 25 years ago, and I think there is some relationship between depression and the tone of public discourse.
- cubefox 4y agoThis seems all highly irrelevant for teen girls.
- watwut 4y agoThere was no coup in 2001
- xbar 4y agoThat's true. Nor has there been one since. But there was a major terror attack after a controversial election where the victor had half-a-million fewer votes than the loser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia... Then there was a war. And CNN became a thing 24 hours a day. And then a 2nd war. And then there was a Great Recession, blamed entirely on one party or the other, depending on whom you asked.