From Tunku Varadarajan @ the Wall Street Journal ➖ and considered a worthwhile read by Christopher Owens. 

Warped by social media and a victimhood culture, today’s young people will imperil American culture and capitalism, the social psychologist warns.

The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a chasm. “We have a whole generation that’s doing terribly,” he says in an interview at his professorial office, book-lined and hushed, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He calls it a “national crisis.”

At 59, Mr. Haidt is a young boomer, and he isn’t talking about millennials, some of whom are in their 40s by now. Rather, he has in mind the younger cohort, Generation Z, usually defined as those born between 1997 and 2012. “When you look at Americans born after 1995,” Mr. Haidt says, “what you find is that they have extraordinarily high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility.” There has “never been a generation this depressed, anxious and fragile.”

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Jonathan Haidt On The ‘National Crisis’ Of Gen Z

From Tunku Varadarajan @ the Wall Street Journal ➖ and considered a worthwhile read by Christopher Owens. 

Warped by social media and a victimhood culture, today’s young people will imperil American culture and capitalism, the social psychologist warns.

The phrase “generation gap” became popular in the late 1960s, as baby boomers were coming of age. To hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tell it, today’s generation gap has widened into a chasm. “We have a whole generation that’s doing terribly,” he says in an interview at his professorial office, book-lined and hushed, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He calls it a “national crisis.”

At 59, Mr. Haidt is a young boomer, and he isn’t talking about millennials, some of whom are in their 40s by now. Rather, he has in mind the younger cohort, Generation Z, usually defined as those born between 1997 and 2012. “When you look at Americans born after 1995,” Mr. Haidt says, “what you find is that they have extraordinarily high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility.” There has “never been a generation this depressed, anxious and fragile.”

Continue reading @ Wall Street Journal.

2 comments:

  1. Since I read Haidt's 'The Righteous Mind' several years ago I've been a big fan of his work. Haven't actually read 'The Coddling of America' as of yet but have followed a lot of his stuff on YouTube.

    Jonathan Haidt & Yuval Noah Harari: Adapting to Change in an Accelerating World
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmtuKCWG7s&t=564s

    Enlightenment and the Righteous Mind | Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt & Jordan Peterson | EP 198
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAQM5uU8uk&t=80s

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