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The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet, and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison? — Reverend Enos Hitchcock, 1790
No writer’s ever gone broke catastrophizing the sorry state of “kids these days.” Earlier this year, on the business end of the crackdowns such sentiments inspire, hundreds of students walked out of Houston’s James Madison High School to protest administrators’ ban on cellphones. Cue all the ageist stereotypes about hormonal juveniles versus the olds who just don’t understand.
“As a queer teen growing up in rural Pennsylvania, the internet was my lifeline,” social media researcher dannah boyd told tech reporter Taylor Lorenz on the“It was the thing that kept me alive in those darkest of days,” boyd confided, thanking the anonymous online well-wishers who helped convince her that she had her whole life ahead of her.columnist Nancy Preyor-Johnson published an opinion piece in which she admitted “spending too much time midnight doomscrolling.
To my knowledge, the U.S. Surgeon General has yet to issue any statements on those immediately actionable reforms.
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