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Jon Haidt finds a rich, out-of-touch conservative zoomer to use as a mouthpiece (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is this in the dunk tank when the article is correct and incredibly insightful? This part specifically struck me:

Has your faith waned? Just hook your identity to a pseudo-religious political ideology. Spluttering commentators stand ready to lead you down rabbit holes, until the only people you see eye-to-eye with are extremists on the other side of a screen.

I actually had to self reflect with this one, because I'm at a point where the only people I see eye-to-eye with are extremists on the other side of a screen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's in the dunk tank because a boomer is using an unrepresentative zoomed to push their simplistic "kids these days, phone bad" grift. No one thinks capitalist social media addiction is good, but none of the material factors (like car dependence, declining standards of living, high housing costs) that make young people vulnerable to it are addressed or even mentioned in the article. The closest thing is an idealist checklist of "zoomers don't have faith in these failed institutions, and that's bad".

And I say this as an Xer.