speaking from personal experience it mighr be causal but not purely in the sense haidt is saying. it thinks the extensuon of knowledge could expand perception blah blah blah look man if’s almost midnight and i think that jonathan haidt is a turd who makes panic articles for 46-year-old dads who are looking for excuses for why their xhildren are wrong. i think that any merit that he has as a psychologist is stretched by his pop-sociology fetish and his frankly blatant and obvious agenda.
this is a subject with complexity and a lot of people have a desperate need to justify blaming one thing for a major societal problem. i have a personal belief in thinking that it’s bad, actually, for us to enclose children in a bubble where our parents are always right.
there’s probably something in the correlative data but i think it’s not just “tsk, kids always on their phones! get em off of there!” and potentially more a mixture of increased information making us aware of more and more about society, as well as the fact that we aren’t refulating advertising online enough, as well as the fact that cintent online is filtered to the point of entry being controlled by a few power brokers.
the world is a hellhole. the excuses made for said hellhole are less comvinxing by the day. identity is more varied than ever. enclosed viewpoints are only so enclosed becausw points of entry are so open. pandora’s box is open, and it is much much wider than blue light.
so no, i don’t think jonathan haidt would have much valuable to say in his book meant to scare dads. it’s his shtick. i’m too tired to pretend it’s jot his shtick. and i’m tired of people seeing a correlation and not only assuming it’s causation, but also assuming that causation is simple. haidt and his ilk are a disease ruining the minds of the upper-middle intelligentsia class. i was raised by his targets.
