en-US Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:42:46 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7400750422 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:42:46 -0700 /review/show/7400750422 Brett gave 4 stars to The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover) by Jonathan Haidt
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I thought it was very good.

I took issue to an extent with the author’s dismissal of broader existential and social conditions impact on mental health. His argument is unconvincing here and I think we have to consider the existential crisis that is the ever widening disparity of wealth in this country and how that is bound to impact opportunities for younger generations as we consider their experience of anxiety and dread. I also think he doesn’t wrestle adequately with the fact that younger generations are far more willing to talk about their struggles with mental health than previous generations and that for instance wide spread conspiratorial thinking has also been on the rise amidst boomers since the 2010s (I grant that this is my mere intuition and I can not currently back that statement up with data), that we must especially consider the broader social and especially economic factors when thinking about these problems. I also took issue with the way he painted GenZ as fragile taking as his primary example the deplatforming of fascists and white supremacists on college campuses.

All that said, I still thought the basic problem of over protective parenting in the real world coupled with over permissive parenting in the digital world is having far reaching consequences on people especially in theor crucial formative years. I think overall his analysis is excellent and his arguments convincing albeit lacking in some of the ways I described above. I’ll give it 4 stars. ]]> ReadStatus9135342219 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:00:55 -0800 /review/show/2829259170 Brett started reading Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia by Martin Shaw
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