How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones

Image Credit: Ellionn – Adobe Stock What is all of this digital content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone? Peter Biles  We tend to associate heavy smartphone and internet use with negative mental health outcomes, as we should, but what about the spiritual side effects of the technology? What is social media, pornography, and the litanies of short-form content doing to the souls of kids? To everyone? Jonathan Haidt, the social psychologist at New York University, offered us a frightening proposition to the question in a new essay at The Free Press, later published at his Substack, After Babel. Haidt references a trend to ask … Continue reading How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones